Extract from Stal/cartt^s Naval Architecture, 685 



to be twenty-five feet in length, and to be worked by 

 four men. All the oars are to be worked between 

 decks, by running them out at the scuttles that serve 

 occasionally for airing the ship. 



Her length upon the main deck being one hundred 

 and fifty feet, it is proposed to pierce her for thirty 

 guns on this deck, and she will carry ten guns upon 

 her quarter-deck, to which may be added two chase- 

 guns upon her forecastle. All the guns upon the main 

 deck are to be thirty-two pounders, upon a new con- 

 struction, weighing twenty-six hundreds each ; and the 

 quarter-deck guns will be light twelve-pounders. 



As thirty -two pounder carronades, which are not 

 half so heavy as the proposed thirty-two pounders, have 

 been proved with very large charges of powder, there 

 can be no doubt that these guns may be made to stand 

 fire with perfect safety ; and that they will do sufficient 

 execution, and be manageable on shipboard, will appear 

 evident, when it is considered that many of the thirt}^- 

 two pounders now in use in the Navy weigh no more 

 than fifty-two hundreds, and that they may be fired 

 with two bullets at a time with the greatest possible 

 effect, and without rendering the recoil at all too vio- 

 lent ; for it is experimentally true that one bullet may 

 be fired from a gun weighing twenty-six hundreds, with 

 the same velocity, and consequently to the same dis- 

 tance when the elevation is the same, as two fired at 

 once from a piece weighing fifty-two hundreds ; and 

 the velocity of the recoil will be the same in both 

 cases. 



But, when the velocity of the recoil is the same, the 

 strain upon the breechings will be as the weight of the 

 gun. The force of the recoil, therefore, of these new 



