Ships & guns - Carlo Beltrame

Ships and Guns
brings together experts from the field of historic artillery and underwater archaeologists to present a series of papers which focus on the development of naval ordnance
in Europe and, especially, Venice, in the 15th17th centuries, as
exemplified by the maritime archaeological resource. Subjects
include Venetian ordnance in shipwrecks of the Mediterranean and
Atlantic, the race to develop big calibres in the first war of
Morea, Genoese ordnance aboard galleys in the 16th century, the
strategic logistics of guns at sea during the Spanish armada of
1588 and ships and guns of the Tudor navy.
Often specialists in ordnance study artefacts recovered from
wrecks without a complete knowledge of the archaeological context
from which they have been recovered. Archaeologists investigating
the context of the objects on the other hand, often do so with
only a superficial knowledge of historic artillery. This volume hopes to redress the balance, and also to present a large amount
of information, often concerning little-known wrecks, on this important but under-published subject area.