Ye Olde Sea Gunner

The loading and firing of a 1:8 scale a 9ft early Eighteenth century English 12 Pounder Gun on the range, with a calibre of 0,62" and a 1:21 calibre length.

A full service charge salute of 60 grams of black powder on the range from the "Thunderer", a fifth scale replica of an eight foot 32 pounder English Naval Gun. Should the gun fire a live round it would be of a quarter pound cast iron ball or heavier if a lead ball. Disclaimer. This exercise is conducted by an experienced gunner on an accredited shooting range under the expert guidance of a qualified Range Officer. Never try this at home or without qualified expert supervision.

A number of black powder enthusiast couples enjoyed an afternoon out on the range where the quarter pounder naval gun "Thunderer" continued to impress.

This stunning naval battle scene, courtesy of Warner Bros., is taken from the film Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N., which was released 70 years ago, with Gregory Peck in the lead role. Captain Horatio Hornblower (a.k.a. Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. in the UK, "R.N." standing for "Royal Navy"), is a British-American naval swashbuckling war film in Technicolor by Warner Bros. Pictures in 1951, and produced by Gerry Mitchell, directed by Raoul Walsh, staring Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty and Terence Morgan. The film is based on three of C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels: The Happy Return (1937), A Ship of the Line (1938), and Flying Colours (1938). Forester is credited with the screen adaptation. This scene depicts the engagement, during the Napoleonic Wars in 1807, between Captain Horatio Hornblower's 38-gun frigate HMS Lydia and the much more powerful Spanish warship, the 60-gun Natividad.