Minutes of proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution (1858)
Great Britain. Army. Royal Artillery Institution · Woolwich, Eng., : The Institution · leaf 697
597 REPORTS ON MOUNTING- OP HEAVY ORNDANCE AT MALTA. … The standing end of a 6 -in. rope was made fast to the gun by a sling, the running end was passed through a snatch-block made fast to the chain of the anchor, and then passed round the trunnion of the gun, and afterwards had two turns round the cascable. The man who stood at the breech could thus…
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