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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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London papers report an experiment at Woolwich Warren where red-hot 24-pound cannonballs were fired at a mock oak ship side from 200 yards. Five shots penetrated fully, but the sixth set the timbers ablaze, consuming them in under an hour.
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Monday arrived at Philadelphia, the ship Harmony, Capt. Willet, from England, she had only 31 days passage from land to land, and brings London papers to the 1st of July, from which we have extracted the following:
LONDON, July 8.
Saturday morning, previous to the commencement of the review, the following experiment was made in Woolwich Warren. A range of five inch timbers being erected to resemble the side of a ship, behind them were placed eleven inch, and lastly nine inch timbers, the whole being bolted and keyed together with stout Iron, so as to form a compact body of oak. Against those timbers five red-hot four and twenty pounders were discharged from the distance of two hundred yards, and they making a clear passage through the whole, lodged in a bank of earth thrown up behind; but the sixth shot penetrated above five inches, and set fire to the timber, which in less than an hour was entirely consumed.
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Woolwich Warren
Event Date
Saturday Morning Previous To July 8
Outcome
five red-hot 24-pound shots penetrated the mock ship structure fully; the sixth penetrated over five inches and ignited the timbers, which burned completely in less than an hour.
Event Details
An experiment simulating a ship's side was conducted using layered oak timbers (5-inch, 11-inch, 9-inch) bolted with iron. Red-hot 24-pound cannonballs were fired from 200 yards; five passed through into an earth bank, but the sixth caused a fire that consumed the structure.