{"id":3838,"date":"2010-09-09T18:31:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T18:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/09\/nordenfelt-6pdr\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:40:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T22:40:08","slug":"nordenfelt-6pdr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/09\/nordenfelt-6pdr\/","title":{"rendered":"Nordenfelt 6pdr"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xF4qsRAOsg4?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>An animation to show the workings of the Nordenfelt 6 pdr quick firing gun. These were introduced in the late 1880&#8217;s as a counter to the increasing menace of torpedo boats and the early torpedo boat destroyers. It fired a 2.2 inch diameter explosive shell weighing 6 pounds to an effective range of 4,000 yards. Firing rate was about 12 aimed shots per minute, a great advance on other breech loading guns which had a firing rate of 2 per minute. This was achieved by use of ammunition that included the projectile, the powder charge and the means of ignition as a single item &#8211; the Quick Firing cartridge. Previously shell, powder bag and igniter had to be loaded separately. For more information on this gun google for anti-torpedo boat guns, then follow Victorian ship models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An animation to show the workings of the Nordenfelt 6 pdr quick firing gun. These were introduced in the late 1880&#8217;s as a counter to the increasing menace of torpedo boats and the early torpedo boat destroyers. It fired a 2.2 inch diameter explosive shell weighing 6 pounds to an effective range of 4,000 yards.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/09\/nordenfelt-6pdr\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nordenfelt 6pdr<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":3839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16153,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions\/16153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}