Artillery preserved in Canada: Ontario: Fort Erie

Artillery preserved in Canada: Ontario: Fort Erie

Fort Erie

Diagram showing the placement of cannon at Fort Erie.

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Fort Erie.

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Fort Erie, commemorative plaques and memorials.

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Russian Blomefield pattern Cast Iron 36-pounder Smoothbore Muzzleloading Gun, made by Armstrong, at Alexandrovski, with double-headed Eagle, Crimean War trophy.  ML, (Serial No. 433G), 1632P, 1835.  Mounted on a wood naval gun carriage located on a redoubt facing south inside Fort Erie.

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Blomefield Cast Iron 24-pounder 50-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Gun, weight 51-0-9 (5,721 lbs), (Serial No. 70802, CARRON, 1807) Carron of Falkirk, Scotland, on the left trunnion, (24P) on the right trunnion, King George III cypher, broad arrow mark, mounted wood naval gun carriage.

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Blomefield Cast Iron 24-pounder 50-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Gun, weight 49-3-0 (5,572 lbs) under the cascabel, (L) Low Moor, England, on the left trunnion, (Serial No. 218) on the right trunnion, King George III cypher, broad arrow mark, mounted on a wood naval gun carriage, on a redoubt facing West.

The broad arrow was used in England (and later Britain), apparently from the early 14th century, and more widely from the 16th century, to mark objects purchased from the monarch’s money, or to indicate government property. It became particularly associated with the Office or Board of Ordnance, the principal duty of which was to supply guns, ammunition, stores and equipment to the King’s Navy.

Blomefield Cast Iron 24-pounder 50-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Gun, weight 53-2-7 (5,999 lbs), King George III cypher, (not observed).

Blomefield Cast Iron 24-pounder 50-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Gun, weight 51-0-13 (5,725 lbs), King George III cypher, (not observed).

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Cast Iron 4-pounder Smoothbore Muzzleloading Gun, no cypher, no markings, mounted on a naval gun carriage, on a redoubt facing West.

Cast Iron 4-pounder Smoothbore Muzzleloading Gun, 1798 DLCCCVI, reproduction, copied from a piece from Fort York.

Cast Iron 6-pounder Smoothbore Muzzleloading Gun, recovered from the USS Detroit which was sunk during the War of 1812.  Museum Visitor Center.

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Bronze 9-pounder Smoothbore Muzzleloading Gun, weight 5-3-22 (666 lbs), D17 over DLCVIII on the left trunnion, 1859 on the right trunnion, F.M. EARDLEY-WILMOT (Frederick Marow Eardley-Wilmot)(Superintendant of the Royal Gun Factory at Woolwich, England cypher above the Queen Victoria cypher, DIEU ET MON DROIT, broad arrow mark, Serial No. 4456, mounted on a naval gun carriage, inside Fort Erie, No. 1 of 2.

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Bronze 9-pounder Smoothbore Muzzleloading Gun, weight 6-0-0 (672 lbs), V14 over DLVIII on the left trunnion, 1859 on the right trunnion, F.M. EARDLEY-WILMOT (Frederick Marow Eardley-Wilmot)(Superintendant of the Royal Gun Factory at Woolwich, England cypher over Queen Victoria cypher, DIEU ET MON DROIT, broad arrow mark, Serial No. 4071, mounted on a naval gun carriage, inside Fort Erie, No. 2 of 2.

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Cast Iron 9-pounder Smoothbore Muzzleloading Gun, weight 16-2-20 (1,860 lbs), Crown over P on the barrel, R, A on right trunnion, mounted on a wood naval gun carriage, inside Fort Erie.

Cast Iron 12-pounder Smoothbore Muzzleloading Gun, weight 31-0-13 (3,485 lbs), pre-1759.  Museum Visitor Center.

Cast Iron 12-pounder Smoothbore Muzzleloading Carronade with a Blomefield pattern breeching ring, weight unknown.

Cast Iron 18-pounder Smoothbore Muzzleloading Gun, weight unknown, King George III cypher, reproduction.

Bronze Coehorn 4.65-inch (12-pounder) Mortar, weight unknown, King George II cypher.

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Cast Iron 10-inch Smoothbore Muzzleloading Land Service Mortar with Dolphin carrying handles, weight unknown, reproduction.