Wooden Splinters — Naval Wound Type

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. An orlop cockpit. The image is a wound-care setting, not a named splinter portrait.

Overview

The wound type is already on 32-Pounder Naval Cannon. At 50–100 yards a 32-pound iron ball could pass through the entire width of a ship’s hull, turning oak and crew members into lethal splinters.¹

The Sentence

This note covers that wound type only. Surgery for splinters, and any statistic beyond the sentence already on the 32-pounder note, stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE.

More men were killed by wooden splinters than by the balls themselves. The gun that produced that effect sat on a Naval Gun Carriage — Truck Carriage.²

Sources

• @white2005nelson
• 32-Pounder Naval Cannon

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Footnotes

1. At 50–100 yards a 32-pound iron ball could pass through the entire width of a ship’s hull, turning oak and crew into lethal splinters: 32-Pounder Naval Cannon. ↩

2. More men killed by wooden splinters than by the balls themselves: same note. Do not invent surgery for splinters or further statistics. ↩