Quote Originally Posted by TexaS View Post
Here's one to train your Swedish... some good extra footage.

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Scientists at the Vasa museum made the replica from an original.
Enthusiasts were present at the firing. (The guy in uniform is almost 100 years too late.)
350 m/s muzzle velocity.
Slow motion filmed in 4000 pictures a second.
Some of the cannonballs hit some furs 500 meters behind the target.
The purpose was primarily shrapnel (or splinters).
Impressive...

Any save place on a sailing ship.

I can understand that the British trained their crews like hell to deal out more broadsides...