US Navy 8-Inch Shell Gun of 63cwt in Vallejo, California
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US Navy 8-Inch Shell Gun of 63 Hundredweight Number 27 is displayed at the old gate to Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California. It was manufactured at West Point Foundry in 1841. It is marked as weighing 63-2-23 in hundredweight (7,135 pounds). It was designed to fire an approximately 50-pound explosive shell with an up to 9 pound propellant charge. Bureau of Ordnance records show that it was mounted aboard the razee frigate USS Independence in 1852. A second example of the type may be seen directly across Tennessee Avenue.
US Navy 24-Pounder of 32 Hundredweight in Vallejo, California
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A US Navy 24-Pounder of 32-Hundredweight is displayed in Independence Park in Vallejo, California. The registry Number is 519. It was cast at Columbia Foundry in 1826. It’s weight is given in hundredweight as 31-2-10 (3,538 pounds).
US Navy 24-Pounder of 32 Hundredweight
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A US Navy 24-Pounder of 32-Hundredweight is displayed in Alden Park on Mare Island in California. I believe that it is Registry Number 52. The 24-Pounder Medium Cannon of 32 Hundredweight was manufactured to arm the Boston-class sloops of war built in the 1820s for the US Navy. A plaque states that it was carried aboard the frigate Independence
US Navy 9-Inch Dahlgren Number 228 of USS Hartford at Mare Island
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US Navy 9-Inch Dahlgren Number 228 was cast at Cyrus Alger and Company in 1858. It weighed 9,045 pounds as manufactured. According to US Navy records, it was placed aboard USS Hartford in 1859. It served with Hartford until 1887 when it was removed at Mare Island. It remains at Mare Island and is displayed there in Alden Park.