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Admiral Dahlgren and His Guns

Admiral John Dahlgren in front of a 50-pounder Dahlgren Rifle

John Dahlgren’s Heavy Smoothbores for the US Navy - An Overview

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Dahlgren Guns by Type

9-Inch Dahlgren Guns

11-Inch Dahlgren Guns

15-Inch Dahlgren Guns

8-Inch Rifles Converted from 11-Inch Dahlgren Guns

32-Pounder Bureau of Ordnance Guns of 4,500 pounds

8-Inch Bureau of Ordnance Guns of 6,500 pounds

Dahlgren Boat Howitzers

US Naval Cannon of the Early 19th Century

32 Pounder recovered from the wreck of USS Peterhoff

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Category: 32-Pounder

Category: 42-Pounder

Category: Banded and Rifled

Guns by Type

“Gradual Increase of the Navy” Cannons

32-Pounder of 51 Hundredweight

32-Pounder of 57 Hundredweight

Carronade

US Army 32-Pounder, Pattern 1829

Parrott Rifles in the US Navy and US Army

100 Pounder (6.4 Inch) Parrott Rifles at Fort Sumter

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Parrott Rifles by Type

Columbiads and Rodmans

15 Inch Model 1861 Rodmans at Fort Moultrie

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Columbiads by Type

8-Inch Model 1844

10-Inch Model 1844

8-Inch Model 1858

8-Inch Confederate Columbiad

10-Inch Confederate Columbiad

8-Inch Rodman (US Model 1861)

10-Inch Rodman (US Model 1861)

15-Inch Rodman (US Model 1861)

20-Inch Rodman (US Model 1861)

8-Inch Rifle (Converted from 10-Inch Rodman)

Brooke Rifles and Smoothbores

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Category: Brooke

Brooke Rifles by Type

6.4-Inch Brooke

7-Inch Brooke

Brooke Smoothbores

British Naval and Seacoast Cannon

All British-Made Rifled Cannons

Armstrong Rifles

Blakely Rifles

Whitworth Rifles

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Location of Displayed Ordnance

30 Pounder Parrott Rifle in Baltimore, Maryland