Top 10 Lists

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Top 10 Most Wanted photo sets for inclusion on this website.

Top 10 (or so) most wanted photo sets:

Below is a list of cannons that I don’t think I’m likely to be able to visit in the near future. If you have photos of them (or live close by and can take photos), I’d be delighted to share them on this site.

  1. The 15-Inch Dahlgrens preserved as a monument to John Ericsson in Filipstad, Sweden

  2. The 11-inch Dahlgrens of USS Kearsarge currently stored by Naval History and Heritage Command in Richmond, VA

    https://www.marinersmuseum.org/2018/11/another-day-another-dahlgren/

  3. The 1855 Tredegar Manufactured 9-Inch Dahlgren listed as located in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania in the edition of “The Registry” in the appendix of The Big Guns with the note “Marked Richmond 1855 / Fired 1681 Rounds”.

  4. The two 6.4-Inch Brooke Rifles of CSS Albemarle and CSS Tennessee displayed in front of the headquarters of US Fleet Forces Command at the Norfolk Navy Yard.

  5. The Hong Kong 15-Inch Dahlgren

    https://www.santee1821.net/preserved-artillery/xv-inch-dahlgren-in-hong-kong

  6. The Naval Guns at Vicksburg and the Guns of USS Cairo

    https://www.nps.gov/vick/index.htm

  7. The 9-Inch Dahlgrens and 6.4-Inch Brookes from CSS Georgia under conservation at Texas A&M.

  8. The 11-Inch Dahlgren in the cemetery of Bangor, Michigan. https://wwmt.com/news/local/bangor-michigan-civil-war-era-cannon-restoration-project-cemetery-community-history-civil-war-h-w-company-grand-army-republic-lincoln-1864-1897-van-buren-county-state

  9. The 9-inch Dahlgrens of Northern Michigan

    One from USS Hartford in Petosky, MI: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=97915

    Three in Mackinaw City: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=138764

    Another in Gaylord, MI

  10. The 11-Inch Dahlgren displayed by the flagpole at the Arizona National Guard Headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona