THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
323 
REPORT 
OF 
ORDNANCE SELECT COMMITTEE. 
No. 2685, dated 6th February, 1863. 
ON COMPETITIVE RIPLED CAST-IRON GENS. 
Brigadier-General St George, C.B., R.A. 
Captain Sir W. Wiseman, Bart., R.N. 
Brevet-Colonel Hogge, C.B., R.A. 
Brevet-Colonel F. A. Campbell, R.A. 
Lieut.-Colonel R. S. Baynes, Unattached. 
Lieut.-Colonel Gallwey, R.E. 
Brevet-Colonel Leeroy, R.A. ; Secretary. 
[Communicated by direction of the Secretary of State for War], 
The Ordnance Select Committee have the honour to report to Secretary 
Sir G. Cornewall Lewis the results of an extensive trial of cast-iron 32-pr. 
guns, rifled for different gentlemen, in accordance with their respective views 
of the best way of rifling the existing store of smooth-bored cast-iron guns, 
under instructions first communicated to the Committee by Lord Herbert, in 
August, 1859 (Appendix I. p. 342). 
The following were the competitors :— 
Mr Bashley Britten. 
Mr Lynall Thomas. 
Mr J. C. Haddan. 
Mr C. W. Lancaster. 
Mr A. Jeffery (added in Dec. 1859). 
Mr J. Nasmyth. 
Mr J. Whitworth. 
Commander R. A. E. Scott, R.N. 
Mr Whitworth did not deliver his gun in a rifled state until August, 1862, 
and has therefore taken no part in the competition, which was closed as 
regards competitive practice in 1861. The Committee, however, having had 
occasion in the course of the inquiry to express their opinion on the merits 
of polygonal rifling, this Report, No. 1708, is subjoined (Appendix IY. 
p. 349). 
Commander Scott was not among the gentlemen originally invited to rifle 
a gun for trial; but having obtained permission, in November, 1859, to have 
a service 32-pr. rifled at his own expense, in the Royal Gun Factories, and 
subsequently a second gun, which has been tried concurrently with the 
others, he is here, for convenience, included in the list. 
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