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>Many thanks, AP. >At Chapman's "Architectura navalis mercatoria", Plate >XXXVI (a privateer frigate), there are some designs of >a very special 3-pounder swivel gun (the armament >proposed by Chapman was 20x6-pounders on gun-deck, >2x4-pounders on FC and QD and 32x3-pounders swivel >guns (from outside the frigate looks as a two-decked >vessel, but one of the decks was armed with those >swivels). >Juan C. Sidders ("Veleros del Plata. Elementos de >Arqueología Naval", Instituto de Publicaciones >Navales, Centro Naval, Buenos Aires, 1982, pages >254-257 and "lámina" -plate- XXXVII, copied from >various sources), said that the Spanish swivels (at >least from the last wuarter of the XVIII Century) were >named "pedreros" or "falconetes" (mostly the largest >ones) and they were from 1/2 pound to 2 or 3 pounds >(Rovira in 1787 named last two, that were >breech-loading guns). >The three Spanish vessels armed in 1818 at Filipinas >as the "División de Manila" have some of these swivel >guns: the smaller of them was the schooner ("goleta") >"Mosca", armed with 8 guns (6 pounders), 4 >"falconetes" (2 pounders) and 3 "pedreros" (1/2 >pounders); she was rated as a 8-gunned vessel, none of >the swivels counted to the rate. >Bye and thanks >Gerardo

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