344 Medtaval and Modern Ordnance. (July, 
fire that followed ‘the explosion caused four seamen to 
leap overboard, all of whom were drowned, making the 
Standard’s total loss by this single shot (and which was all 
she sustained) amount to eight killed and drowned, and 
forty-seven wounded. The Pompée had the good fortune to 
escape without being struck by a shot in hull, masts, 
rigging, or sails. The Thunderer, on the other hand, was a 
good deal damaged, and had two seamen killed, and one 
lieutenant, one midshipman, ten seamen, and two marines 
wounded. The Lucifer had no one hurt. The Active 
received a granite shot weighing 800 lbs.,* and measuring 
6 feet 6 inches in circumference, which passed through her 
side 2 feet above the water, and lodged on the arlop deck 
close to the magazine scuttle, without injuring a man. 
The aperture made by it was so wide that Captain Mow- 
bray, on looking over the side to ascertain what damage it 
had done, saw two of his crew thrusting their heads 
through at the same moment. Had there been a necessity 
for hauling to the wind on the opposite tack she must have 
gone down.” 
Such was the last appearance, in European waters at 
least, of huge stone cannon-shot during action, and if they 
did as much execution in proportion during the siege of 
Scutari, from June 22nd to the 21st July, 1478, inclusive, 
a period of thirty days, they must have caused tremendous 
destruction. At first there were two guns only placed 
in battery against the place, which were gradually increased 
to eleven towards the end of the siege; these guns varied 
in calibre from 19°8 inches to 32°4 inches, and their weight 
from 373 lbs. to 1640 lbs. Each gun fired on an average 16 
shots a day, giving a total of 2534 rounds. The weight of 
such a number of stone shot, which must have weighed at 
least 1000 tons, leads General Lefroy to suppose that 
these were cut on the spot, being dressed into spherical 
form from blocks in neighbouring quarries by slave labour. 
The relative sizes of these shot are shown in the diagram. 
We will hope that our ironclad fleet of the present day 
would not have to retreat after the fashion of Sir John 
Duckworth’s squadron, although by this time ro-inch elon- 
gated projectiles have probably replaced the stone shot 
in the Dardanelles. 
* General Lefroy considers the weight of the last shot exaggerated, and 
suggests that the boatswain put his foot into the scale, as a ball 78 inches in 
circumference will be under 25 inches in diameter, and not weigh more than 
760 pounds. Some of these stone shot are at the Tower, others in the gun 
wharf at Portsmouth, at Sir John Duckworth’s seat in Devonshire, and one 
at Admiral Tucker’s, Trematon Castle, Cornwall. 
