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68 Pounder Lancaster gun

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68-Pounder Lancaster gun

68-Pounder Lancaster guns were a British rifled muzzle-loading cannon of the 1850s that fired a 68-pound shell. They were fitted in pairs to the Arrow-class gunvessel. The cannon was designed with an oval bore and had a range of about 6500 yards. The gun had a tendency to burst.

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68-Pounder Lancaster gun Wikipedia