functioned with a reliable toggle-locked mechanism (locked breech), and had a convenient safety and a push-button magazine release, the gun was extraordinarily ungainly, especially without the ...

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This early 16th century cast iron, breech-loading cannon is the only one of its kind in Wales. It is designed to be carried on a ship of war and fired through a gun port on the side of the hull.