Half bronze cannon of twelve bullet pounds. Half cannon. Artillery pieces No. INV. 6965, 6970, 6969, 6964, 6967, are part of the fourteen from Manila's fortifications with which the Spanish Nao San Diego was precipitously armed, to establish combat the southwest of the island of Luzón (Philippines) against a Dutch flotilla which intended to attack the archipelago in mid -December of the year 1600, date on which the NaO sank. The pieces were recovered in 1992 by the French submarine archaeologist Franck Goddio. The cast iron model presents an important defect in the stumps, as well as a displac
Half bronze cannon of twelve bullet pounds. Half cannon. Artillery pieces No. INV. 6965, 6970, 6969, 6964, 6967, are part of the fourteen from Manila's fortifications with which the Spanish Nao San Diego was precipitously armed, to establish combat the southwest of the island of Luzón (Philippines) against a Dutch flotilla which intended to attack the archipelago in mid -December of the year 1600, date on which the NaO sank. The pieces were recovered in 1992 by the French submarine archaeologist Franck Goddio. The cast iron model presents an important defect in the stumps, as well as a displacement to the right of the rattles. The coughing of the foundry discards European manufacturing and inclines to consider that this piece can be of the primitive ones that came out of the Filipino furnaces. In 1584 the Spaniards monitored an artillery factory in the Philippines that was at the site of Namayan, Arrabal de Santa Ana de Sapa, until in 1590 the factory moved to Manila; Hence this piece could proceed. Exempt from decoration, narrowing very slightly to end in a rings steak that starts the mouth. Very coarse handles shaped of bichas and stumps to teams second reinforcement. Elongated rattha. It has a indicated foundry defect in the cylinder head that is tilted with respect to the axis of the soul. It presents holes for the foundry of the piece. Procedure: Pecio Galeón San Diego as a result of the arrival of Thomas Cavendish to the Philippines (1588), artillery was founded in Manila and the fortifications of the city were reinforced, particularly those of the Fort of Santiago. When Felipe II ordered the corregidor Don Santiago de Vera to read on the artillery of the defenses of the Filipina capital, he answered him on June 25, 1588, with a letter where he specified exactly the places of location of the 24 pieces of thick artillery , two small and some verses that constituted; Thus we can verify the origin of almost all
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