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Old 2nd July 2014, 10:24 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Marcus den toom
The image shows us that the yoke is roughly 7,5 cm as it is right now. I remembered a similar French "naval rampant gun" . When searching on these words, you will find lots of these, mostly flintlock, guns.
Thanks Marcus. I believe the ship sank in 1781 or 1782, so it would be a flintlock.

The distance between the tips of the yoke's arms is 2 inches, or 5.08 cm.

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