Heated shot or hot shot is round shot that is heated before firing from muzzle-loading cannons, for the purpose of setting fire to enemy warships, buildings...
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the cannonball could be heated to red hot. This was called a "heated shot". (On the shot called "the single deadliest cannon shot in American history",...
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type of artillery ammunition similar to canister shots but with explosive submunitions Heated shot Field artillery in the American Civil War Miller,...
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Spider shot was a variation of chain shot with multiple chains. Round shot Heated shot Canister shot Grapeshot Duck, B. (2010). Shipwrecks of the Dominican...
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Naval artillery in the Age of Sail (section Shot)
hulls, or spars and set fire to the enemy ship. Heated shot Shore forts sometimes heated iron shot red-hot in a special furnace before loading it (with...
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Naval artillery (redirect from Double-shotted)
(and the difficulty of heating and transporting the red-hot shot aboard ship), heated shot was seldom used from ship-mounted cannon, as the danger to the...
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Shell (projectile) (section Proof shot)
target. It was used by the Royal Navy between 1860 and 1869, replacing heated shot as an anti-ship, incendiary projectile. Two patterns of incendiary shell...
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floating batteries, with 212 cannons being crewed by 5,260 men. British heated shot quickly destroyed all of the batteries, with 719 men dying. The destruction...
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fortifications under construction and capturing three cannons. Over 200 heated shot a day were hurled into the city, and several large howitzers were brought...
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