Weaponry

Guns and Gunnery

• How to manage a fight at Sea, with the proper tearmes in a fight largely expressed, and the ordering of a Nauy at Sea. From John Smith: A Sea Grammar, 1627.
• Necessary Instructions for a Sea-Gunner. From John Seller: The Sea-Gunner, 1691.
• To make Ladles to Load your Guns with. From John Seller: The Sea-Gunner, 1691.
• L'exercice du Canon. From Construction des vaisseaux du Roy, 1695. [In French]
• [Kommandoord]. From Daniel Grundell: Nödige underrättelse om Artilleriet till Lands och Siös, 1705. [In Swedish]
• Het verdeelen van het volk in quartieren, het exerceeren van het volk, het manoeuvreeren met de zeilen &c.. From J.H. van Kinsbergen: Zeemans hand-boek, 1781-1782. [In Dutch]
• General Exercitier till Sjös, med Canonerne, och Handtgjevähren, under åthskillige Occasioner, efter nödiga Temp, Uprättade År 1787., 1787. [In Swedish]
• General Exercitier till Sjös, med Canonerne, under åthskillige Occasioner. Efter nödiga Temp. Uprättade År 1787., 1791. [In Swedish]
• F.H. af Chapman: Om Spittskammars Canoner, 1798. [In Swedish]
• Firing bow guns when in chase. From Francis Liardet: Professional Recollections on Points of Seamanship, Discipline, &c., 1849.

Other weapons.

• How to make Hand-Granadoes to be Hove by Hand — How to make Fire-Pots of Clay — How to make Powder-Chests — To make Stink-Balls.. From John Seller: The Sea-Gunner, 1691.

Updateded 2007-09-03 by Lars Bruzelius.

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