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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 405326, member: 54&quot;]Thanks AF (suddenly hit me that AF might stand for “Always Funny.”)</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes the barrel is similar to that of a carronade, but for one difference, the carronade lacks trunnions, having instead a wide lug underneath to connect it to a low carriage.&nbsp; This shape tube with trunnions vice the carronade’s “underlug” is called a “gunade.”&nbsp; Warships were armed with carronades ca. 1800.&nbsp;&nbsp; But I’ve seen only a very few gunades listed in storage inventories of US Navy yards during 19th C.&nbsp; I’ve seen hundreds of real antique gunade barrels in the market over say the past 40 years, but only about 3 real carronades, one of which I bought.&nbsp; I’m sure the vast disparity in numbers of survivors simply reflects the ratio of sailing merchant vessels to sailing warships in existence in, say, 1820.&nbsp; I don’t know when Lloyd’s began requiring merchantmen to be armed, but in reading some old admiralty court proceedings, the very first issue considered was&nbsp; establishing how the ship suffering the loss was armed in terms of “carriage guns” and “swivels.”[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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