Queen Elizabeth's Pocket Pistol
Queen Elizabeth's Pocket Pistol is a cannon built in 1544 in
The cannon measures 24 ft (7.32 m) in length and fired 4.75 inch (121 mm) calibre cannonballs. The cannon is decorated with engravings of fruit, flowers,
Between 1613 and 1622 the gun was used and was found to be capable of firing a 10 lb (4.5 kg) ball a distance of 2000 yards (1.8 km).
In 1644 King
The cannon can be seen at Dover Castle on a replacement carriage made in the 18th century from captured French guns.[2] A copy of the cannon is displayed in Buren, Netherlands, next to the museum of the Dutch royal family.
References
- ^ "Pocket pistol - Dover Pages".
- ^ a b c "Panoramio - Photo of Queen Elizabeth's Pocket Pistol, Naafi Restaurant, Knights Road, Dover Castle, Kent, UK (1)".
- ^ "The Pocket Pistol".
- ^ "Treasures of Britain" by Drive Publications Limited, for the Automobile Association. P.167
- ^ "The History of the Castle, Town and Port of Dover" by Reverend S. P. H. Statham, Rector of St Mary-in-the-Castle (ie St Mary-in-Castro) (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899
- ^ "A Topographical Dictionary of England (pp. 78-84)". Dorsington - Down-Ampney.
- ^ Mercurius Aulicus Week 36, British Library, Thomason Tracts E.10[20]
- ^ W. Y. Carmen, 2004. A History of Firearms: From Earliest Times to 1914. Dover Publications, p.45
- ^ "Dover Castle" by R. Allen Brown (Her Majesty's Stationery Office, HMSO 1974