On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:12:17 -0400, Wayne.B penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:17:41 -0500, John H.
wrote:

It is a 25mm cannon. Never heard of a fish cannon. Potato gun, but not
fish cannon.


Wrong. It is a 62 caliber 76mm Otobreda.

I'm a believer.

It certainly looks a lot bigger than 25mm, that's only 1 inch.

I don't understand the 62 caliber reference at all.

Naval Guns are described in that manner.

That gun fires 76mm shells or 2.992 inches; the length of the barrel
is 62 times the bore diameter or 185.5 inches(15'-5") long.

The North Carolina class battleship has 45 caliber 16 inch guns, the
Iowa class sported 50 caliber 16 inch guns.

http://www.geocities.com/fort_tilden/16ingun.html

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