"Vince Brannigan" wrote in message
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Keith Willshaw wrote:
"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



The table at
http://www.cwartillery.org/art-cost.html

shows bronze guns costing between 4 times and 6 times
an iron gun in the early 1860's

Keith


not for gun of about the same size.

the 3 inch ordnance rifle cost $330 the Comparably sized 12pounder
napoleon cost 490. Most of the cost of a cannon is in the boring and
turning , which don't change much with the size.


You are comparing Apples and Oranges

The napoleon was a smoothbore and its production involved
much less boring and turning than a rifle

The true comparison is between an iron
smoothbore and a napoleon. The columbiads
while admittedly larger than the napoleons
were also smoothbores

Keith