US Navy 32-Pounders of 4,500 Pounds in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Two US Navy 32-Pounders of 4,500 Pounds are displayed flanking a monument in Lawton Park in Fort Wayne, Indiana
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The two 32-Pounders are:
32-Pounder of 4,500 Pounds Number 17 manufactured by Seyfert, McManus, and Co. in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1865. Weight as manufactured was 4,620 pounds.
32-Pounder of 4,500 Pounds Number 89 manufactured by Fort Pitt Foundry in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania in 1865. Weight as manufactured was 4,520 pounds.
US Navy 32-Pounders of 4,500 Pounds in Worcester, Massachusetts
Three US Navy 32-Pounders of 4,500 Pounds are displaced together in a tripod at Hope Cemetery in Worcester, Massachusetts. As a nearby interpretive sign notes, the display is near a section of graves of Civil War soldiers and sailors. The sign also points out that of a pre-war population of around 25,000, 4,227 men enlisted for service in Worcester.
Many thanks to friend-of-the-page James Murray for these photos!
The 32-Pounder of 4,500 Pounds of San Luis Obispo
A US Navy Bureau of Ordnance 32-Pounder of 4,500 Pounds is displayed in the San Luis Cemetery in San Luis Obispo, California. This 32-Pounder was manufactured at Builders Foundry (Providence, Rhode Island) in 1866. According to the data in a 2000 edition of the registry, it weighed 4,530 pounds as manufactured in 1866. It is US Navy registry number 333. The 32-Pounder is mounted on an original iron Marsilly carriage.
USN BuOrd 32-Pounders of 4,500 Pounds in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Two US Navy Bureau of Ordnance 32-Pounders of 4,500 Pounds are displayed in front of the courthouse in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. They are:
32-Pounder of 4,500 Pounds Number 10 cast by Seyfert, McManus, and Co. in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1865. As manufactured it weighed 4,601 pounds.
32-Pounder of 4,500 Pounds Number 13 cast by Seyfert, McManus, and Co. in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1865. As manufactured it weighed 4,564 pounds.
BuOrd 32-Pounders of 4,500 Pounds in Townsend, Massachusetts
Two US Navy Bureau of Ordnance 32-Pounders of 4,500 Pounds are displayed in front of Memorial Hall in Townsend, Massachusetts. Notably, one of the cannons still has a firing hammer attached on the lug at the breech.
Bureau of Ordnance 32-Pounder of 4,500 Pounds in Keene, New Hampshire
Two United States Navy 32-Pounders of 4,500 Pounds are displayed in Keene, New Hampshire on either side of the Civil War Monument in Central Square.
The Claremont, New Hampshire Soldiers’ Memorial
Two US Navy Bureau of Ordnance 32-Pounders of 4,500 Pounds are displayed at Broad Street Park in Claremont, New Hampshire alongside a statue memorializing war dead which was placed in 1869 (though the cannons were likely placed between 1890 and 1910). This post includes a list of the soldiers memorialized and their service.
32-Pounders of 4,500 Pounds in Peterborough, New Hampshire
Two US Navy Bureau of Ordnance 32-Pounders of 4,500 Pounds are displayed outside the old Grand Army of the Republic Hall (now Post and Beam Brewing) in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
The Naval Cannons of Exeter, New Hampshire
Four US Navy Cannons are displayed in Exeter, New Hampshire: an 11-Inch Dahlgren, a 32-Pounder of 57 Hundredweight, and two 32-Pounders of 4,500 Pounds
The Bureau of Ordnance 32-Pounders at Stark Park
Four US Navy Bureau of Ordnance 32-Pounders of 4,500 Pounds are displayed at Stark Park in Manchester, New Hampshire.
BuOrd 32-Pounders in Townsend, Massachusetts
Preserved in Townsend, Massachusetts are a pair of Bureau of Ordnance 32-Pounders of 4,500 Pounds. One of these Dahlgren-style guns still has it’s firing lock installed upon its breech.
John Dalhgren’s Heavy Smoothbores for the US Navy
An overview of John A. B. Dahlgren’s heavy smoothbore cannon designed and created for the US Navy.
USS Santee - A Frigate of the United States Navy
USS Santee - designed after the War of 1812, built slowly in the 1820s-1850s, seeing active service at the beginning of the American Civil War, and serving many years as a school ship for the United States Naval Academy, was a beautiful frigate whose history reflects the changing technology of naval ordnance. This website is named in her honor.