Dude says Vesuvius never saw active service, which flies in the face of the Wikipedia entry that says it made at least one coastal bombardment during the Spanish-American War. Who's telling the truth?
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Closely related to the nitroglycerin squirt gun...
This just screams out for a "Mythbuster" episode!
Thank you for the interesting morning read. For a few moments, I actually forgot to be cranky about being up so early.
Oh look, a warship stuffed full of dynamite! What could possibly..
Yep.
An over-grown potato gun crossed with high explosives? You're a woman after my own heart.
Jim
Dude says Vesuvius never saw active service, which flies in the face of the Wikipedia entry that says it made at least one coastal bombardment during the Spanish-American War. Who's telling the truth?
Wikipedia.
You can see the tri-barrel dynamite gun in action in The Rough Riders.
A couple of the early U.S. Navy Holland submarines mounted a pneumatic dynamite gun in the bow.
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_Zalinsky.htm
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