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Or the shore bombardment of Tripoli during the First Barbary War Bombardment of shore positions from the sea. This strategy began early in naval history, probably first with arrows and catapults. The introduction of guns at sea dramatically changed its impact. In the late seventeenth century the French employed a specially designed bombardment vessel, the […]

Ordnance experiments in the 1870s involving testing pressures in gun bores revealed that performance could be significantly enhanced by utilizing slower-burning gunpowder and longer barrels. Slow-burning large-grain powder, known as prismatic powder, prolonged the length of time that the charge acted on the projectile and thus increased both muzzle velocity and range. The problem with […]