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Designation: 8in Naval Shell Gun
Model: 8in Chambered Navy Cannon, 63 cwt, M1845
Identification No: West Point 358: USN


Designed by: US Navy Bureau of Ordnance (BUORD)
Built at: West Point Foundry
Cold Springs, New York, USA
Year : 1845
Item Category: Artillery, Black Powder, Iron

Memorial Information
Owner: US National Park Service
Owner Reference No: VICKC 2124


Comments: at USS Cairo




Current Status: Static Display
Access: Fee Indoor
Location: Vicksburg National Military Park
3201 Clay St
Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
Lat/Long32.343863-90.850837 Click here to see location in Google Maps

Reference Documents / websites:

The Big Guns, pg 231: C102, 6
Artillery of Vicksburg NMP, pg 271-272

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Last update to record: 2021-02-01

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