Rolling Broadside

[Stefan]

Although this is not civil war artillery, the sound and smoke look pretty neat in these videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2WdU3Zk ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0Cn-btA ... re=related

[tkavanagh]

What are those smokes coming up *vertically* alongside/outside the hull? Wasn't the noise and smoke from the guns themselves enough? that they had to fake it with some more?

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Wheat's Tigers

[Chris Sweeney]

The smoke coming up from below is the lower gun deck broadside. It's actually below the level of the pier so you cant see the guns

[tkavanagh]

Chris Sweeney wrote:

"The smoke coming up from below is the lower gun deck broadside. It's actually below the level of the pier so you cant see the guns"

Umm, no. As was pointed out to me by a member of HM 64th of Foot:

See "How it was Done"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPyLrV2NYYs

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Wheat's Tigers

[threepdr]

The smoke coming up from below is the lower gun deck broadside. It's actually below the level of the pier so you cant see the guns

The guns on the Victory are all fiberglass. The original guns are too heavy for the old girl. The blasts from below are the noise and smoke blasts, those from the guns are just small charges to give the illusion that they are being fired. The Victory sits in a dry dock built in the 17th Century. It is not floating at a pier.

Plymouth is a great place the visit. I think I enjoyed the HMS Warrior as much as the HMS Victory.