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Museum Quality Models & Miniatures
This website is a showcase of a private collection of highend quality bronze, brass and wooden cannons, mortars and reproduction of ancient models in different scales and from different ages. Feel free to contact us if interested in purchasing any of them.
Royal Navy Carronade. 1780
68 pounder British carronade.
1:17 scale diorama by Ugo Crisponi
"HMS Victory"
Based on ealry '70s model kit by Mantua (Italy), the original 68 pounder carronade well preserved, can still be seen on the upper deck of the "HMS Victory" at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard (UK), the famous flagship of Admiral Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. This 104 gun, first rate wooden Ship of the line was built at Chatham in 1765. HMS Victory used the two 68-pounder carronades which she carried on her forecastle to great effect at the Battle of Trafalgar, clearing the gun deck of the Bucentaure by firing a round shot and a keg of 500 musket balls through the Bucentaure's stern windows.
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