"The old sea-dog had graciously invited us to spend the night at his home, and on the way there we stopped at the Carron Iron Works … or more accurately, a monument to the former Carron works, cheaper ironwork from the Japanese drove them out of business. There I learned that a “carronade”, which is a small cannon which I’d read about in many histories of the period, was named after the Carron works. It’s a lethal affair designed to shoot “grape-shot” at infantry, basically a shotgun on steroids." The things one learns, although if "the old sea dog" is the one who told him a carronade was designed to shoot grape shot at "infantry," I have to reserve some skepticism about the Carron/carronade thing.
Posted on: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 16:28:49 +0000
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