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Cannon operation (redirect from Quoin (gunnery))dirt. Also used to pierce the cartridge, that it may sooner take fire. The quoin of mire are pieces of wood with a notch on the side to put the fingers on...17 KB (2,195 words) - 18:47, 7 February 2024- Quoin Hill Airfield, Vanuatu Du Quoin, Illinois, USA Du Quoin station Du Quoin State Fairgrounds DuQuoin State Fairgrounds Racetrack Quoin (gunnery)...592 bytes (109 words) - 12:19, 19 April 2020
- is an older spelling of Quoin, and may refer to: Coign (architecture), masonry blocks at the corner of a wall Coign (gunnery), a wedge used in aiming...614 bytes (119 words) - 21:59, 3 September 2020
Gun laying (redirect from Traverse (gunnery))angle, various arrangements were used. At the simplest, it was wedges or quoins between the breech and the trail, but wooden quadrants, or simple scaffolds...37 KB (5,167 words) - 19:20, 24 May 2024
sights that would give accuracy at different ranges. He had the elevating 'quoins' (wedge-shaped pieces of wood placed under the breech) of his long guns...49 KB (6,606 words) - 16:04, 2 June 2024
day. One is in the form of part of a wooden gun carriage; called a Quoin. This quoin can be found among the Valhalla figurehead collection in Tresco Abbey...6 KB (625 words) - 05:45, 27 January 2024- being of lighter dimensions than the ceiling lower down (spirketting). quoin A wedge used to assist in the aiming of a cannon rabbet A groove cut in...252 KB (31,646 words) - 10:16, 3 July 2024
- club, a lighthouse, churches, and a museum that originated as a naval gunnery training centre. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates...49 KB (1,479 words) - 14:01, 14 September 2023
subject to criticism in France when it emerged that he had removed the quoins from his guns in an effort to force his men to fire at the British rigging...15 KB (1,920 words) - 16:41, 25 September 2023
worming, although they were more expensive.[citation needed] Simplifying gunnery for comparatively untrained merchant seamen in both aiming and reloading...27 KB (3,636 words) - 20:13, 29 April 2024
the hull of Forte. This problem was partly attributed to the French gun quoins which had been replaned three days earlier, exacerbated by the lack of suitable...22 KB (2,567 words) - 14:15, 22 November 2023- United States Navy The decommissioned Benham-class destroyer was sunk as a gunnery target in the Pacific Ocean off Kwajalein after use as a target in the...67 KB (1,178 words) - 00:45, 7 June 2024
- from carronades, quoins were used: indeed carronades should invariably be fired with quoins, screwing the gun tight down on the quoin, to prevent the piece
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