HMS Victory - The Original Fast Battleship

I was a Commander of a black powder cannon like the ones on the HMAS Victory. Those are "ornamental" firings - simply for a bang and a puff of smoke. People who do not know shit about black powder cannons tend to go, "Oh Wiw - Did you see that? How amazing!" - where as a full charge of the ground and blended dry powders, with wadding and a ball, is something else entirely. Granted the location etc... Well....

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: I kind of figured something like that was going on. It's still an impressive sight. It would be cool to actually see a full broadside fired by a ship of sail.

@Councilof1: Yeah.... but blended ground powders, of sulphur, charcoal and potassium nitrate, are sort of bags of "sand" - where the burn is sort of through a porous mass of powder, , where as powders, that have been wet ground, and packed into cakes, and that finely mixed cake, is ground up to make a coarse grain powder, that burns much better, much faster, with much higher breech pressures. The modern gun is much better - see this with the first comment. -- https://www.mgtow.tv/v/OZ2KsX --