68-pounder (disambiguation)

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A 68-pounder is a gun nominally firing ammunition weighing (or otherwise denominated at) 68 pounds.

68-pounder 95 cwt – One of the last smoothbore cannons used by the Royal Navy. They were fitted to the Ironclad Floating batteries used during the Crimean War.^[1] They were also fitted in the Warrior class battleships.
Lancaster Gun – An early rifled cannon firing 68 lb shot.
8 inch 65 cwt gun or 68-pounder 65 cwt gun.
68-pounder carronade – A size of carronade carried by some British ships of the line.

References

↑ Bastable, Marshall J (2004). Arms and the state: Sir William Armstrong and the remaking of British naval power, 1854-1914. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 52. ISBN 0-7546-3404-3.

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