Noun:

ચારકોલ,

carronade's Usage Examples:

Glatton was originally armed with twenty-eight 68-pounder carronades on the lower deck and twenty-eight 42-pounder carronades on her upper deck.

On the debit side, carronades had a short range.

production of a new short-range and short-barrelled naval cannon, the carronade.

A carronade is a short, smoothbore, cast-iron cannon which was used by the Royal Navy.

to fire explosive shells at a low velocity, they were an answer to the carronade in the close combat and anti-personnel role.

This battle was notable as the first proper use of a carronade, and so effective was this weapon that the French commander promptly surrendered.

9 kg) carronade in 1834, two 24-pdrs in 1859 and two 12-pdrs (5.

brass field guns, an 8-inch brass howitzer, and three 24-pounder naval carronades mounted on field carriages, and a Congreve rocket detachment.

By 1825 the 32-pounder carronade was the only carronade still in general use in the Royal Navy.

Later, the Navy replaced the twenty-eight 68-pounder carronades on the lower deck with twenty-eight 18-pounder long guns, ending the experiment.

The month after the action in July 1796 (see below), she received two 32-pounders and two 18-pounder carronades for her forecastle.

The class were fitted with a Schank sliding keel and armed with ten 18-pounder carronades and two long 24-pounders.