Three bronze guns have been found in the Meuse near Dinant since 1869. They have never before bee... more Three bronze guns have been found in the Meuse near Dinant since 1869. They have never before been published and are now in three different locations in Belgium.
A book for the cannon lover or expert interested in Dutch old cannons and iron ordnance from othe... more A book for the cannon lover or expert interested in Dutch old cannons and iron ordnance from other countries in the Netherlands. 330 pages in Dutch and English, 565 pictures.
verschenen in Scheepshistorie 26. Download versie, 2019
De auteur houdt zich bezig met het documenteren en herkennen van oude kanonnen, om hun geschie-de... more De auteur houdt zich bezig met het documenteren en herkennen van oude kanonnen, om hun geschie-denis bloot te leggen en te beschrijven en ze daarmee een plaats te geven in gebeurtenissen van de Nederlandse geschiedenis. Veel kennis hierbij verkregen, is afkomstig uit 'het grote magazijn' ofwel de zeebodem. Een recent onderzoek betrof acht kanonnen afkomstig uit Messina en drie van Terschelling. In dit artikel wordt verklaard hoe die kanonnen daar terecht zijn gekomen.
The wreck of the Marquise de Tourny was discovered in the western English Channel in 2008 by Odys... more The wreck of the Marquise de Tourny was discovered in the western English Channel in 2008 by Odyssey Marine Exploration and subjected to a ferrous metal FADE survey in 2009. The site is 80m deep and 100km southeast of Plymouth. The presence of 25 iron cannon combined with discovery of the ship's name and date embossed onto its bronze bell, La Marquise de Tourny '1744', identified the wreck as the remains of an armed privateer built in Bordeaux and lost during the War of the Austrian Succession. The corsair sank around the mid-18th century. An unknown European organisation is believed to have salvaged the cannon from the wreck. It was subsequently found in a coastal scrap yard and the author of this paper notified. The gun is incised with fleur de lys comparable to those present on a swivel gun recovered from the wreck in 2008 and is identified as deriving from the Marquise de Tourny. At 242cm in length and with a bore diameter of 10.5cm, the gun is an 8-pounder of French origin. The cannon's salvage reflects the impossibility of supervizing and protecting historical shipwrecks located outside terriorial waters from non-authorized access, and underlines how essential it is to record and sample at risk underwater cultural heritage of international importance.
In many papers on nautical archeology projects incised marks on cannon are described and explaine... more In many papers on nautical archeology projects incised marks on cannon are described and explained. I noticed several misunderstandings of the weight marks, especially if guns are found which have once been traded through the Dutch provinces in the 17th century. Usually cannon experts were not consulted or even these were wrong. Only in one case a reaction from an ordnance expert resulted in a corrective article: Ruth Brown wrote the right interpretation of the marks described by Guilmartin in his article about the cannon of the Santissimo Sacramento, sunk in Brazil 1668. (in Artigos navigator nr2/2005) In my files, which contain thousands of gun pictures and many hundreds of my own drawings, several interesting weight marks can be found. Below is my explanation of these marks.
Three bronze guns have been found in the Meuse near Dinant since 1869. They have never before bee... more Three bronze guns have been found in the Meuse near Dinant since 1869. They have never before been published and are now in three different locations in Belgium.
A book for the cannon lover or expert interested in Dutch old cannons and iron ordnance from othe... more A book for the cannon lover or expert interested in Dutch old cannons and iron ordnance from other countries in the Netherlands. 330 pages in Dutch and English, 565 pictures.
verschenen in Scheepshistorie 26. Download versie, 2019
De auteur houdt zich bezig met het documenteren en herkennen van oude kanonnen, om hun geschie-de... more De auteur houdt zich bezig met het documenteren en herkennen van oude kanonnen, om hun geschie-denis bloot te leggen en te beschrijven en ze daarmee een plaats te geven in gebeurtenissen van de Nederlandse geschiedenis. Veel kennis hierbij verkregen, is afkomstig uit 'het grote magazijn' ofwel de zeebodem. Een recent onderzoek betrof acht kanonnen afkomstig uit Messina en drie van Terschelling. In dit artikel wordt verklaard hoe die kanonnen daar terecht zijn gekomen.
The wreck of the Marquise de Tourny was discovered in the western English Channel in 2008 by Odys... more The wreck of the Marquise de Tourny was discovered in the western English Channel in 2008 by Odyssey Marine Exploration and subjected to a ferrous metal FADE survey in 2009. The site is 80m deep and 100km southeast of Plymouth. The presence of 25 iron cannon combined with discovery of the ship's name and date embossed onto its bronze bell, La Marquise de Tourny '1744', identified the wreck as the remains of an armed privateer built in Bordeaux and lost during the War of the Austrian Succession. The corsair sank around the mid-18th century. An unknown European organisation is believed to have salvaged the cannon from the wreck. It was subsequently found in a coastal scrap yard and the author of this paper notified. The gun is incised with fleur de lys comparable to those present on a swivel gun recovered from the wreck in 2008 and is identified as deriving from the Marquise de Tourny. At 242cm in length and with a bore diameter of 10.5cm, the gun is an 8-pounder of French origin. The cannon's salvage reflects the impossibility of supervizing and protecting historical shipwrecks located outside terriorial waters from non-authorized access, and underlines how essential it is to record and sample at risk underwater cultural heritage of international importance.
In many papers on nautical archeology projects incised marks on cannon are described and explaine... more In many papers on nautical archeology projects incised marks on cannon are described and explained. I noticed several misunderstandings of the weight marks, especially if guns are found which have once been traded through the Dutch provinces in the 17th century. Usually cannon experts were not consulted or even these were wrong. Only in one case a reaction from an ordnance expert resulted in a corrective article: Ruth Brown wrote the right interpretation of the marks described by Guilmartin in his article about the cannon of the Santissimo Sacramento, sunk in Brazil 1668. (in Artigos navigator nr2/2005) In my files, which contain thousands of gun pictures and many hundreds of my own drawings, several interesting weight marks can be found. Below is my explanation of these marks.
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