36-Pounder Long Gun — French Naval Standard

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A naval long gun on a truck carriage. Not a named 36-pounder portrait.

Overview

The French 36-pounder is already on Bucentaure — Overview. That Téméraire-class 80 carried 30 × 36-pounder long guns on the lower gun deck at Trafalgar.¹

The Battery

This note covers that Bucentaure battery only. Foundry, ball weight in kilograms, and a full French nature-of-guns table stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE.

The same table gives the upper deck as 32 × 24-pounder long guns, and the quarterdeck and forecastle as 18 × 8-pounders plus 6 × 36-pounder obusiers. The British first-rate contrast already filled is the 32-Pounder Naval Cannon.²

Sources

• @adkin2005trafalgar — pp. 76–82, 78; 286–323 (Bucentaure, already used)
• @knight2005pursuit
• Bucentaure — Overview

Related

Navigation

• MOC_Weapons_Technology
• Ordnance_Artillery_Index

Same Subject

• Bucentaure — Overview
• Téméraire-Class Two-Deckers — French Naval Doctrine
• 32-Pounder Naval Cannon
• Redoutable — French 74-gun Ship

Cross-Domain

• Battle of Trafalgar 1805 — Overview
• Age of Sail — Era Overview

Footnotes

1. Lower gun deck 30 × 36-pounder long guns: Bucentaure — Overview specification table. ↩

2. Upper deck 32 × 24-pounders; 18 × 8-pounders + 6 × 36-pounder obusiers: same table. Do not invent a kilogram equivalent or a foundry. ↩