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yakalskovich) wrote2010-03-03 12:51 am
yakalskovich) wrote2010-03-03 12:51 am
OMG 30-pounder cannonball in the landromat!!
I was folding my laundry when a bloke walked in with a cannonball, in order to weigh it on the laundromat scales.
It weighed almost exactly 15 kg, hence a thirty-pounder, or rather, a 32-pounder, but they were called thirty-pounders, as Wikipedia has it. That's the name I knew as well. These things were shot from so-called demi-cannons.
It's greener on one side, and smoother, because it's been in the river; the paler, more pitted side was buried in the silt. The bloke has a blog (in German) where he goes on about it as well. It's apparently his hobby to fish historic munitions from the river, but mostly, he only gets WW II stuff.
It weighed almost exactly 15 kg, hence a thirty-pounder, or rather, a 32-pounder, but they were called thirty-pounders, as Wikipedia has it. That's the name I knew as well. These things were shot from so-called demi-cannons.
It's greener on one side, and smoother, because it's been in the river; the paler, more pitted side was buried in the silt. The bloke has a blog (in German) where he goes on about it as well. It's apparently his hobby to fish historic munitions from the river, but mostly, he only gets WW II stuff.