The Ordnance Society

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WEBSITE UPDATES

Lots of new info on the website so far this year!  The Newsletter Indices now include No. 136; our ‘banned’ Facebook page has now been removed and we have an Instagram page to replace it; there are some fascinating 19th C Fuze drawings added to the Ammunition Page of Ordnance Downloads; and finally, Nick Hall recently visited the Tyne & Wear Museum in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and returned with some excellent photos of Armstrong’s No. 1 Gun – the FIRST practical rifled breech-loading artillery gun.  Now in a new album on our Flickr pages.


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NEW JOURNAL, INDICES & PAGE

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

The Ordnance Society has got 2022 off to a great start.  The Journal, Volume 28 was posted last week and has already been delivered to many UK OS members.  It’s one of our best to date with wide-ranging in-depth articles and lots of colour photos.  The indices have been updated and enlarged to include an index by topic, again, thanks to Alastair Fyfe.  The new Journal will be added to the download list over the next few days.

A fascinating new sub-page has been added to PUBLICATIONS, called ANIMATIONS.  They consist of about 50 different, moving solid 3-D guns or torpedoes, that are gradually broken down into their constituent parts to show how the whole system works, in slow motion.  Riveting, as well as educational, these short episodes are not to be missed!  A lot of hard work by Rob Brassington.

 


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NEWSLETTER No. 136

Changes are being made to the layout of the website and if you haven’t received notification of the new location of Newsletters, please contact the Society: ordnance.society@btinternet.com

Printed Newsletters will be posted as normal to those who have requested the hard copy option.

 


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BRITISH GUNS ABROAD – A WORLDWIDE SURVEY OF BRITISH ARTILLERY

The Ordnance Society has launched the first upgrade of its “WORLDWIDE SURVEY OF BRITISH ARTILLERY”.  The format is very similar to our NATIONAL ARTILLERY SURVEY, but with a different ‘page’ on the spreadsheet for each calibre/gun type.

There are now many more guns than the initial 9.2-inch gun in the first survey sheet, and these include 10-inch, 8-inch, 7.5-inch, 5.5-inch (Naval), 5.25-inch and 5-inch Naval.  A few empty pages for other large calibre guns still remain and these will be populated as soon as possible.  Smaller calibres will be added in the near future.

There are many British guns in overseas countries and the Ordnance Society welcomes Data Input Forms that are sent in.  They are also on the new WORLDWIDE SURVEY OF BRITISH ARTILLERY page.