Will check refs tonight and come back to you with accurate figures!

The price diff is merely the material cost btw (copper was expensive you
know), actually casting and working the bronze was simpler than working with
iron.

Staale

"Vince Brannigan" wrote in message
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Staale Sannerud wrote:
Including the price of the guns in the ship building price would
make sense if the guns were cast especially for that ship, which
sometimes
did happen esp. with bronze guns. They were around 4x as expensive as
iron
ones by the way.

do you have a cite for this 4x figure.

vince