Salamandre

Performance of any single piece of 40 cm to 2.80 m according to comprehensive plan and photos of detail.




• French invention, the galiote bomb were created in the 1680s to help effectively bombard the port cities barbarian. Long by 81 feet (26.32 m) wide, 25 (8.12 m), she was serving on board sixty crew. Shooting platform, the two 12-inch mortar bombs fired from 140 pounds at a practical around 3000 meters with an accuracy and damage any relationship. To overcome the shock caused at the start of shot, mortars were arranged on beds of several beams, complemented by several layers of heavy rope. In addition, many provisions of deck reinforcing structures of the hull.

• SALAMANDRE participated in the campaigns of Bizerte and Sousse in 1760, of Salé and Larache in 1765.

• Built in 1752 by Jean-Marie Coulomb, it was canceled in 1791.