The Ordnance Society

The latest Newsletter No. 152 is now available for download from the DOWNLOADS sub-page of the PUBLICATIONS page; and is available for members only. The Newsletter has also been e-mailed to Ordnance Society members, and will be posted to members who have opted for hard copy in the next few days.

Neil Grant has come up with a great list of Visits in 2026.  There is always a limit on the number of places available for a visit, so it’s first come, first served.  I’ve booked my first one already!

The latest update to the Ordnance Society’s National Artillery Survey has been uploaded to the website.  There are now 590 guns listed in our survey, many of which are linked to photos on our Flickr page. of the individual guns.  The latest addition is a very rare and old French RBL gun, of 1877 vintage, which was recovered from a torpedoed, armed merchant ship, the SS Eastfield.  A history of the gun, the ship, its loss, and the subsequent recovery of the gun, is published in our next Newsletter.

The date of the Ordnance Society  ONLINE AGM has now been fixed for Tuesday 10^th February 2026, and papers for this will follow in due course.  Nominations (and volunteers) for members of the Board are most welcome.  Please send these to the Hon Sec:   aghada_hall@yahoo.co.uk

Details are on the ‘ORDNANCE EVENTS’ page; the topic being:

“Aftermath of the 1956 Suez crisis: Global Ramifications and Reflections for Dockyards and Shipyards”

The latest indices on the PUBLICATIONS pages have now been updated to include Newsletter No. 151.

The latest Newsletter No. 151 is now available for download from the DOWNLOADS sub-page of the PUBLICATIONS page; and is available for members only. The Newsletter has also been e-mailed to Ordnance Society members, and will be posted to members who have opted for hard copy in the next few days.

We have just completed a major update to three out of our four Artillery Surveys and uploaded them to the website.  These are the National Artillery Survey, the World-Wide Survey of British Artillery, and the World-Wide Survey of British RMLs.

There are still unrecorded guns both in the UK and overseas, so if you know of any, or come across some, please send us details.

The indices to Newsletters have also been updated, to include No. 150, and uploaded.

The latest Newsletter No. 150 is now available for download from the DOWNLOADS sub-page of the PUBLICATIONS page; and is available for members only. Please note that the PASSWORD for accessing the DOWNLOADS sub-page has now been changed.  The Newsletter has also been e-mailed to Ordnance Society members, and will be posted to members who have opted for hard copy in the next few days.

We have just added another Artillery Survey to our growing collection:

WORLDWIDE SURVEY OF BRITISH RIFLED MUZZLE LOADING GUNS

This includes many different variants of RMLs from the UK and all over the world and has 175 different guns listed.  Most of the guns are linked to an excellent set of photos on ‘Flickr’.