SCARCE US NAVY CANNON LANYARD

SCARCE US NAVY CANNON LANYARD

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Item Code: 2026-9251

US Navy cannon were primed using a quill tube capped by an explosive wafer that would be detonated by heavy hammer actuated by a lanyard pulled by a gunner. We show a Civil War photo of some navy crewman around the breach of an 11-Inch Dahlgren pivot gun showing the gunlock. Shipboard quarters were notoriously tight and the 12-foot lanyard specified in the 1862 Army Ordnance manual, or their 6-foot long variants, would hardly do. This is a good example of the scarcer naval version, effectively a shorter version, a little over 5-feet long, but provided also with a leather-covered finger ring on the end opposite the hook, and with a sliding hand grip that would act against a the bottom of a cone-shaped stop enabling the gunner to give a pull, even two-handed, forceful enough to swing the heavy hammer of the gunlock over to strike the primer. This is in very good condition. The shorter end of the cord measuring about 18-1/2 inches and the longer end 43-inches.  [sr][ph:L]

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