Pirate Weaponry

Learn the tools of the Pirate Trade!
 

Click on the name of the weapon to learn more about it!

 General Shipboard Weapons:

 Edged Weapons:

  • Buckler

  • Cutlass

  • Dagger

  • Dirk

  • Sailor's Knife <-- Still in Progress!

  • Scimitar (a.k.a. Persian: "Shamshir", Turkish: "Kilij", Indian: "Talwar", Moroccan: "Nimcha", Afghan: "Pulwar")

 Rifles, Pistols, and Small Arms

 Cannon & Naval Artillery (Various Historical Periods)

THE ERA OF ARTILLERY

1.

The Ancient Engines of War

2.

Gunpowder Comes to Europe

3.

The Bombards

4.

Sixteenth Century Cannon

5.

The Seventeenth Century & Gustavus Adolphus

6.

Eighteenth Century Cannon

7. 

United States Guns of the Early 1800's

8. 

Rifling of Cannon Projectiles

9. 

The Civil War

10. 

The Change into Modern Artillery

 

GUNPOWDER

11. 

Primers

12. 

Modern Use of Black Powder

 

CANNON CHARACTERISTICS

13. 

Smoothbore Cannon, Early Examples

14. 

Smoothbore Cannon of the Later Period

15. 

Garrison and Ship Guns

16. 

Standard Naval Deck Cannon (Various Eras)

17. 

Swivel Cannon

18. 

Siege Cannon

19. 

Field Cannon

20. 

Howitzers

21. 

Mortars

22. 

Petards

 

CANNON PROJECTILES

23. 

Solid Shot & Explosive Shells

24. 

Fuzes

25. 

Scatter Projectiles

26. 

Incendiaries & Chemical Projectiles

27. 

Fixed Ammunition

28. 

Rockets

 

29. 

Cannon Tools & Implements

 

30. 

"The Practice of Gunnery"
(A Guide to Mastering the Art of the Cannon)

 

31. 

Glossary of Cannon Terminology
(Just in case the above info wasn't enough!)

 

32. 

Selected Bibliography of sources used to gather the above Cannon Information

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