Old English canon (HMS Maidstone)

Description

Scanned with Scaniverse (LiDAR, "Area mode") This gun came from HMS Maidstone, a Fifty guns ship build in 1744 with more than 300 men on board. It sank in 1747 off the coast of Noirmoutier (Western France). See Wikipedia (in French - the English page is shorter :) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Maidstone_(1744) This heavy artillery canon was manned by a crew of 13 sailors. Please feel free to follow my collections of daily scans ([link](https://skfb.ly/6YuwK)) as well as my scans in San Francisco, Paris, or in the catacombs ([link](https://sketchfab.com/edemaistre/collections)). Follow me on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/emmanuel_2m)