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SIEGE TRAINS. 
ORDNANCE FOR SIEGE TRAINS. 
Muzzle-loading Rifled Guns, 
7-inch of 90 cwt. 
G4-pr» of 64 cwt. 
40-pr. of 35 cwt. 
25-pr. of 18 cwt. 
How Travelled and Worked, 
Guns travelled on Platform Wagons. 
Guns worked on wrought-iron garrison carriages and 
slides, with special platforms. The slide fitted with tra¬ 
velling axle, for transporting the carriage and platform. 
Travelled and worked on wrought-iron travelling carriages, 
with field limbers. 
An ordinary ground platform for the 40-pr. 
Muzzle-loading Rifled Howitzers 
8-inch of 70 cwt. . Same as the 7-inch, and 64-pr. M. L. Guns, but worked on 
a wrought-iron bed instead of a garrison carriage. 
6-3-inch of 35 cwt.Same as the 40-pr. M. L. Gun. 
Rifled Mortars :— 
8-inch of 46 cwt. . 
6- 3-inch of 18 cwt. 
Breech-loading Rifled Guns 
7- inch of 72 cwt. . 
40-pr. of 35 cwt. . 
20-pr. of 16 cwt. . 
Accessories :— 
7-pr. R. M. C. Gun of 200 lbs. 
24-pr. Hale’s Rockets . 
Gatling Guns of 75 lbs. 
Wall pieces . 
Same as the 8-inch Howitzer. 
Either on a 40-pr. travelling carriage or a special bed 
with ordinary ground platform. 
Same as the 7-inch M. L. Gun, but with a wooden garrison 
carriage and naval slide, instead of wrought iron. 
Travelled and worked on wooden travelling carriages with 
field limbers. 
An ordinary ground platform for the 40-pr. 
Worked on a wrought-iron bed, carried in ammunition store 
wagons. 
With two troughs per hundred rockets, carried in ammu¬ 
nition store wagons. 
On special carriages with high wheels, travelled, lashed 
behind any of the carriages or wagons. 
Carried in ammunition store wagons. 
PROPORTION OF AMMUNITION AND STORES FOR EACH PIECE OF ORDNANCE 
OF EACH NATURE (MUZZLE-LOADING AND BREECH-LOADING) TO BE 
USED FOR SIEGE TRAINS. 
Ammunition and Combustible Stores. 
Vocabu¬ 
lary 
Section. 
Articles. 
Proportions. 
Where Carried. 
Y. 
Balls, light-ground spheri- 
5 per 8-in. Howitzer or 
Packed 3 in a box, carried 
cal, 8-inch 
Mortar 
in ammunition store 
wagons. 
Y. 
Carcasses filled 
30 per 8 and 6-3 Howitzer 
Packed 1 in a box do. 
or Mortar 
Full battering charges of pebble 
powder for 400 rounds of 7-in. 
(M.L. or B.L.) and 64-pr. guns. 
Such cartridges as are not 
Cartridges filled and 
with 100 rounds of ordinary 
stowed in the limber- 
in paper covers 
charges.* 
1 
boxes of travelling car- 
V. 
(Silk cloth for M.L. - 
500 rounds of ordinary charges* 
1 
>- riages, to be packed in 
& serge for B. L. 
for all other guns, 1/5 full, 2/5 
metal-lined cases, and 
Ordnance) 
half, and 2/5 quarter charges 
carried in ammunition 
for Howitzers and Mortars. 
store wagons 
150 6-oz. silk cloth cartridges for 
l 
pr. guns. 
V. 
Cartridges, shalloon, 4-ozs. 1 
350 per 7-pr. 
Cups, tin, 7-inch, B.L. J 
1 per round. 
In boxes of 100 
provided for the guns and more important carriages of a Siege Train, the remaining equipments 
and stores being carried on hired transport. 
* The battering and ordinary charges of all guns to be decided by experiment. 
Note.— It is essential that the weight of every article of siege equipment should be carefully 
ascertained, so that the loads may be readily calculated and distributed at any moment, 
