From what I remember where not the balls supposed to explode and do more shrapnel type damage? I thought they were quite brittle and so you could fire them at the people on deck and get a whole bunch of them like a massive shotgun? You would need to hit a ship really low down at the water line with a solid ball and that doesn’t seem easy!
Most cannon balls were massive (it as too risky to shoot grenades). As you saw on the video, the wooden splinters would kill or hurt most people under deck. Grapeshots were effective against people on the upper decks. czcams.com/video/EpNS0JpnUNY/video.html After that boarding could be rather easy and was more common than sinking the enemy`s ship. It was also common to destroy the enemy`s rig, by shooting chain balls and similar special designed cannon balls.
Most of the time they used the massive canon balls but if they wanted to have the effect of a shotgun they simply used small items instead of a canon ball. Probably also when low on ammo they stuffed the barrow with everything that fitted and could survive the shot itself, like nails, empty and broken bottles, rocks etc. Destroying the enemy's ship isn't as lucrative as capturing it so i think it's a common used tactic in those days to kill or injure the enemy without a lot of damage to the enemy's vessel so you can easaly repair it when it's in your hands.
From what I remember where not the balls supposed to explode and do more shrapnel type damage? I thought they were quite brittle and so you could fire them at the people on deck and get a whole bunch of them like a massive shotgun? You would need to hit a ship really low down at the water line with a solid ball and that doesn’t seem easy!
Most cannon balls were massive (it as too risky to shoot grenades). As you saw on the video, the wooden splinters would kill or hurt most people under deck. Grapeshots were effective against people on the upper decks. czcams.com/video/EpNS0JpnUNY/video.html After that boarding could be rather easy and was more common than sinking the enemy`s ship.
It was also common to destroy the enemy`s rig, by shooting chain balls and similar special designed cannon balls.
Most of the time they used the massive canon balls but if they wanted to have the effect of a shotgun they simply used small items instead of a canon ball. Probably also when low on ammo they stuffed the barrow with everything that fitted and could survive the shot itself, like nails, empty and broken bottles, rocks etc. Destroying the enemy's ship isn't as lucrative as capturing it so i think it's a common used tactic in those days to kill or injure the enemy without a lot of damage to the enemy's vessel so you can easaly repair it when it's in your hands.
A video about a ship that couldn't sail - like so many other things produced in Sweden ....
Easy to guess where you're from lol
Sounded like Aphex Twin in the background at the start
Looks like the Dutchman
Har skola nu
Rotums kanoner och krut, kan ingen konkurrera ut :-)
NO HAY TRADUCCIÓN EN CASTELLANO!???
sanki sabotajla batırılmış gibime geliyor...!
Ska jänkarna skjuta vår kanon... :D
Eller hur :D Men fyfan vad imponerande skeppet var för sin tid, om de inte hade stressat fram den så förbannat.
Absurt, men svensk historia är ju inget som är värt att bevara tydligen.
ja fred dit svenska har bättrats väldigt.
When he start mention about civil war cannons, the video ends, no one cares.
Some of us did.
bastante fea salio la fundicion. Muy porosa...especialmente cerca de la boca