Gun Port Height

[Don Case]

I'm trying to figure out the height of the gun ports. I'm thinking it should be arranged so that with the gun barrel level it would be poking through the center of the port. Would that be about right? The gun port would have to be designed around the size of gun they planned on using?

 

[NMBROOK]

Hi Don

This varies greatly between the size of the cannon, era and the nationality of the vessel.As a rule of thumb the cannon barrel should be slightly below centre when it is horizontal giving room to add elevation

Kind Regards

Nigel

 

[Don Case]

Thanks