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  Registered Member #4126 Joined: Fri Feb 15 2013, 05:19amPosts: 1115 | Here is a Bad Day.  | ||
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aew  Registered Member #1929 Joined: Wed Nov 30 2011, 03:05pmPosts: 2789 | I suspect the user(s) didn't make a complaint! Wonder why they kept it. A good example of how drilling a hole at the end of a crack stops it progressing. | ||
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| Tim C |
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| Registered Member #4126 Joined: Fri Feb 15 2013, 05:19amPosts: 1115 | Why they kept it? I'm thinking something to show the tourists. The hole in the back was threaded, or so I thought. I'm thinking that the cannon was first spiked (after the fort was captured). The touch hole was "repaired". Then one of two things, the gun crew truly had a bad day or the fort was taken again and the cannon was double or triple charged and shotted and blown up. As our "guide" was to busy getting my tour companions into the cigar bar to make sales and get a kickback I do not have much info on this. Yet, going to look into the history of this fort more later. Yes the cannon is real the carriage is a Bad repro. My thoughts again. Later Tim [ Edited Fri Jun 01 2018, 03:39pm ] | ||
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| aew |
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| aew Registered Member #1929 Joined: Wed Nov 30 2011, 03:05pmPosts: 2789 | I was referring to the 'original owners' when i queried why they kept it rather than re-cast it. Deliberately putting it out of action's certainly a possibility. Where is it? | ||
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| Tim C |
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| Registered Member #4126 Joined: Fri Feb 15 2013, 05:19amPosts: 1115 | Arthur "re-cast" it would be a thought for a lot of countries. But this cannon is in Cuba. So I'm thinking they were not up to the task. With the size and weight of the cannon it might not have been worth the effort of shipping back to Spain or ? Melting it down and casting into other items, well I'm thinking if this was spiked or blown there were a lot of them and this might have been the only one saved. As we have seen over the years a lot of cannons were used for a lot of different things and repros made also. Saw a lot of repros used on the street corners. "Putting it out of action" is what I'm thinking happened, but could have happened on the original gun crew. One of the times Cuba was again captured as our guide pointed out to us (different location on the tour) was when the US invaded Cuba, after the Maine was blown up that is. US forces or another force British (I believe) took the area and may have disarmed the guns. Where is it? Castillo de los Tres Reyes del Morro, I believe that is correct. In other words the Castle/Fort on the North side of the entrance of the channel into Havana Harbor, Cuba. As I stated before, our guides were more interested in getting the tour group into the cigar shops than talking about the history of the area. The Forts in this area are large. Later Tim | ||
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