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Photographs of
Bay View Cannons

Cast iron

Bay View
Digby County
Nova Scotia

Admiral Digby Museum, Digby

Admiral Digby Museum, Digby

Admiral Digby Museum, Digby

This cannon weighs 2112 kg.

The foundry marked this cannon's weight as 41 - 2 - 10, meaning 41 hundredweight plus 2 quarters plus 10 pounds. One hundredweight equalled 112 pounds, and one quarterweight equalled 28 pounds. Thus this cannon weighs 4658 pounds. One kilogram equals 2.205 pounds. This cannon's weight works out to 2112 kilograms (at the time of manufacture, not much changed now).

Admiral Digby Museum, Digby

Cannon manufactured for George II Rex
(King George II reigned 1727-1760)

Admiral Digby Museum, Digby

The above photographs were taken on 16 May 2003.

Nowadays, cannon and other forms of artillery from the 1700s and 1800s are nothing more than quaint noise-makers.  We see them only in the movies and on TV, or at occasional demonstrations at historic sites.  In their day, cannons were the most powerful, far-reaching and fearsome weapons available...

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