10-Inch Brooke Smoothbore S87 at the National Civil War Naval Museum
10-Inch Doubled Banded Brooke Smoothbore, S87, is displayed at the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus Georgia.
A 10-Inch Double Banded Brooke Smoothbore, S87, is displayed at the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia. This gun was cast in 1864 at Selma, Alabama. In November of 1864 it was shipped for delivery to Commodore Ingraham commanding the Charleston Squadron of the Confederate Navy. However, neither this gun nor the 11-Inch Brooke displayed next to it reached Charleston due to transportation disruptions at the end of the war.
It is marked as weighing 21,562 pounds. According to his January 1863 report to the Confederate Navy, John M. Brooke designed his 10-Inch to fire with charges from 15 to 30 pounds. Round shot would have weighed about 128 pounds.
One other 10-Inch Brooke Smoothbore, an exampled manufactured by Tredegar, exists and is displayed at the Washington Navy Yard.
Drawing of a 10-Inch Double Banded Brooke Smoothbore from the January 1863 report of John M. Brooke.
