Raisley It depends on the year. 100 gun ships, including Victory, carried 42 pounders at one time. She had 32 pounders 9 1/2' long available in 177...

Thanks for answering. I'm modeling the era where the lower deck had 32-pound long guns, the middle deck 24-pound long guns and the upper gun deck 1...

Further to Gary's great information, I would not consider McKay the authority on ordinance. He appears to have used the 20 caliber rule for determi...

Thanks so much, everyone. I was heading toward the "length" being just to the breech, rather than overall, and this confirms it. The only other dis...

Raisley, You are not being nit picky, you are trying to be accurate, good for you!! The length of a 24 gun carriage for the 1791 pattern was 6 feet...

Just looked in the book I have by Arthur Bugler O.B.E and he has the drawings of 12 pounder Short 8'-2", 12 pounder Medium 9'-2" and 12 pounder Lon...

Well, I drew up the 32-pounder barrel in Fusion 360, using parameters to change the -pound size, and using McKay's book enlarged for size and shape...

Assuming you are looking for a drawing of a Blomefield pattern 32 pounder, 9' 6" (56cwt) barrel there is a 3"=1' scale drawing on pages 260 and 261...

In an effort to create accurate guns for my Corel 1/98 scale Victory cross section, I've been doing a lot of research and have used various tables...

After going down a couple dead ends, I worked up a nice looking but inaccurate 3D model of the Victory's long 32-pounder. I am therefore going to s...