The 8-Inch Muzzle Loading Rifle of USS Richmond in Lambertville, New Jersey
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The 8-Inch Muzzle Loading Rifle of USS Richmond in Lambertville, New Jersey

A US Navy 8-Inch Muzzle Loading Rifle which served in the 1870s and 1880s aboard the famous Civil War ship USS Richmond is displayed in front of a Civil War Memorial at Mary E. Sheridan Park in Lambertville, New Jersey. The cannon was converted from an 11-Inch Dahlgren in 1877. (The cannon had been originally cast in 1863.)

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9-Inch Dahlgrens of the Mariners’ Museum
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9-Inch Dahlgrens of the Mariners’ Museum

Two 9-Inch Dahlgren guns are on display at the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia. One was aboard CSS Virginia in her battle with USS Cumberland. The other served aboard USS Richmond.

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