US Navy 32-Pounders of 42 Hundredweight Numbers 276, 226, and 280 of USS Cairo
US Navy 32-Pounders of 42 Hundredweight Numbers 276 and 226 are the number 3 and 4 guns on the starboard broadside of USS Cairo. Number 280 is the starboard gun on the stern.
USS Navy 100-Pounder Parrott Rifle of USS Franklin
US Navy 100-Pounder Parrott Rifle, Number 165, is displayed in Trophy Park at Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Manufactured at West Point Foundry in 1863, Number 165 weighs 9,727 pounds. According to the research of Wayne Stark, Number 165 served aboard USS Franklin - likely from the time of her commissioning until at least 1872.
US Navy 9-Inch Dahlgren Number 242 at Trophy Park
US Navy 9-Inch Dahlgren Number 242 was manufactured by Cyrus Alger & Company in 1859. As manufactured it weighed 9,045 pounds. It served aboard USS Richmond from her commissioning until 1865. During this time it was fired 250 times. USS Richmond, of course, saw a very active career including at New Orleans, Vicksburg, and Mobile Bay. After 1872, it was mounted aboard USS Sabine.
The 32-Pounder of USS St. Lawrence
US Navy 32-Pounder of 57 Hundredweight, Number 384, is displayed at Trophy Park at Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Number 384 was manufactured at Tredegar Foundry in Richmond, Virginia in 1848. According to the research of Wayne Stark, Number 384 was carried aboard the sailing frigate USS St. Lawrence.
The Rifled Boat Howitzers of Norfolk Naval Shipyard
Two US Navy 12-Pounder (3.4-Inch) Rifled Dahlgren Boat Howitzers are displayed near the 4th Street Entrance at Norfolk Naval Shipyard: Numbers 314 and 403. Two other rifled boat howitzers are nearby: Numbers 249 and 298.
US Navy 32-Pounder of 57 Hundredweight of USS Congress
US Navy 32-Pounder of 57 Hundredweight, Number 125, was carried aboard USS Congress - when she was sunk after surrendering to the ironclad CSS Virginia during the Battle of Hampton Roads in March 1862.
US Navy 9-Inch Dahlgren Number 34 of USS Wabash
US Navy 9-Inch Dahlgren Number 34 is one of five 9-Inch Dahlgrens displayed at the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia. It was cast at Tredegar Foundry in Richmond, Virginia in 1855. Records indicate that it served aboard USS Wabash.
9-Inch Dahlgren Number 45 of USS Wabash at the National Civil War Naval Museum
US Navy 9-Inch Dahlgren Number 45 was cast at Tredegar Foundry in 1855. Among the earliest surviving Dahlgrens, it has two closely placed hammer mounting blocks which are oriented to a single vent. The research of Olmstead, Stark, and Tucker show that it was carried aboard the steam frigate USS Wabash.
US Navy 32-Pounder of 42 Hundredweight Number 283
A US Navy 32-Pounder of 42 Hundredweight, Number 283, is displayed aboard USS Cairo at Vicksburg National Military Park. This cannon was cast in 1845 at the West Point Foundry. It is marked as weighing 42-1-11 Hundredweight (4,743 pounds). It was recovered in 1963 as preparatory work to recover the sunken USS Cairo in 1964.
8-Inch Rifle Number 50 of USS Lancaster
US Navy 8-Inch Muzzle Loading Rifle Number 50 of USS Lancaster at Patriots Point Soccer Stadium in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. This is one of four 8-Inch Rifles which were carried aboard USS Lancaster in the 1880s which are displayed at the stadium. Previously these 8-Inch MLR were displayed beside the aircraft carrier Yorktown. Before that they were at the Charleston Navy Yard.
8-Inch Number 48 of USS Lancaster
US Navy 8-Inch Muzzle Loading Rifle Number 45 of USS Lancaster at Patriots Point Soccer Stadium in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. This is one of four 8-Inch Rifles which were carried aboard USS Lancaster in the 1880s which are displayed at the stadium. Previously these 8-Inch MLR were displayed beside the aircraft carrier Yorktown. Before that they were at the Charleston Navy Yard.
The Guns of USS Peterhoff at Fort Fisher
Four US Navy cannons recovered from the wreck of the Civil War ship USS Peterhoff are currently in storage awaiting future display at Fort Fisher State Historic Site. The four cannons include three types of 32-Pounder and a 30-Pounder Parrott Rifle.
US Navy 32-Pounder of 41 Hundredweight in Washington, North Carolina
A US Navy 32-Pounder of 41 Hundredweight which may have served on USS Cyane or USS Levant is displayed in Oakdale Cemetery in Washington, North Carolina
The 60-Pounder Breech Loader of USS Kearsarge
A US Navy 60-Pounder Breech Loader which served aboard USS Kearsarge from about 1880 to 1886 is displayed at Trophy Park at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia. This gun was originally manufactured as a muzzle loading 60-Pounder (5.3-Inch) Parrott Rifle, Registry Number 61, at West Point Foundry in 1865.
Rifled 12-Pounder Boat Howitzer (Steel) at Trophy Park
While most of Dahlgren's Boat Howitzers were made of bronze, twelve of his rifled 12-Pounder Boat Howitzers were made of steel. Three of these survive, with one, Number 298, being displayed on an original carriage at Trophy Park at Norfolk Naval Shipyard.
The Wreck of USS Huron and 9-Inch Dahlgren Number 1178
Displayed at Trophy Park at Norfolk Naval Shipyard is US Navy 9-Inch Dahlgren Number 1178. Number 1178 was cast in 1864 at Fort Pitt Foundry. It is one of the last of the type to have been manufactured. (The series of registry numbers ran to 1185.) According to the research of Wayne Stark. Number 1178 was recovered from the wreck of USS Huron.
US Navy 32-Pounders of 57 Hundredweight in Quincy, Massachusetts
Four US Navy 32-Pounders of 57 Hundredweight surround a monument to those lost in the American Civil War in Mt. Wollaston Cemetery in Quincy, Massachusetts.
US Navy 8-Inch Chambered Shell Gun of 63 Hundredweight Number 358 of USS Cairo
US Navy 8-Inch Chambered Shell Gun of 63 Hundredweight Number 358 is displayed aboard USS Cairo at Vicksburg National Military Park. It is mounted on the port broadside in the second position from the bow. Number 358 is one of three of the 8-Inch shell guns aboard. Number 358 was cast at the West Point Foundry in 1845. It is marked as weighed in hundredweight "63-0-18" (7,074 pounds).
US Navy 100-Pounder Parrott Rifle of USS Otsego in Manhattan, Kansas
A US Navy 100-Pounder Parrott Rifle, Registry Number 224, is displayed in Sunset Cemetery in Manhattan, Kansas. During the American Civil War, it was carried aboard USS Otsego which was sunk by a torpedo in December of 1864.
US Navy 60-Pounder Parrott Rifle at Trophy Park
A US Navy 60-Pounder (5.3-Inch) Parrott Rifle is displayed alongside other Parrotts and Dahlgrens of the Civil War era at Trophy Park at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia. This 60-Pounder is Number 56. It was manufactured at West Point Foundry in 1865. As manufactured it weighed 5,430 pounds.