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Harpoon cannon outside of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge.
A harpoon cannon is a whaling implement developed in the late 19th century and most used in the 20th century. It would be mounted on the bow of a whale catcher, where it could be easily aimed with a wide field of view at the target. Powered by black powder and later, smokeless powder, it would generally fire a large steel harpoon, either solid steel (cold harpoon) or fitted with an exploding black powder, or later, penthrite (PETN) grenade.
Harpoon cannons are still used by whaling nations, but these are usually guns of a smaller caliber. The exception is Iceland, which hunts large whales regularly.
A harpooncannon is a whaling implement developed in the late 19th century and most used in the 20th century. It would be mounted on the bow of a whale...
A harpoon is a long spear-like projectile used in fishing, whaling, sealing, and other hunting activities to shoot, kill, and capture large fish or marine...
explosive harpoon is a type of harpoon which uses an explosive discharge to assist in whaling. In Norway, Japan, and Iceland, the use of these harpoons is commonplace...
throes. These harpoons inject air into the carcass to keep the heavier rorqual whales hunted today from sinking. However, the harpoon-cannon is still criticized...
for hunting and processing whales. Svend Foyn introduced the modern harpooncannon and brought whaling into a modern age. He is also recognized as a pioneer...
Rook runs out of bullets, and Callahan shoots Rook with a Svend Foyn harpooncannon, impaling him. Callahan leaves with Walker just as the police and news...
out-swam whaling vessels. Whaling rorquals was not effective until the harpooncannon was invented in the late 1860s. Whaling basically stopped when stocks...
manufacturer, Gaetano Amici, patented a cannon fired harpoon. An Englishman, George Welch, patented a grenade harpoon, also in 1867, very similar to Foyn's...
three 12.2 to 15.2 m (40 to 50 ft) wood-hulled vessels that had a 50 mm harpooncannon mounted on their bows. Whales were towed to a shore station for flensing...
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whale boats were rowed from the shore, and if the whale was successfully harpooned and lanced to death, it was towed ashore, flensed (i.e., its blubber was...
charge launcher on top of the second deck next to the pilot, and a large harpooncannon on the bow. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly writes, "Cameron...
engage in pursuit. A harpooncannon with a grenade tipped harpoon is fired at the target whale. A rope is trailed from the harpoon in order to prevent...
using factory ships and catchers fitted with bow-mounted cannons that fired explosive harpoons, continued into the 20th century and was mainly focused...
iron segments. Svend Foyn receives a Norwegian patent for the grenade harpooncannon for whaling. Henry R. Heyl receives a United States patent for a magic...
driven, six-barrel, air-cooled, electrically fired Gatling-style rotary cannon which fires 20 mm × 102 mm (0.787 in × 4.016 in) rounds at an extremely...
were caught by men hurling harpoons from small open boats. Mechanization copied from Norway brought in cannon-fired harpoons, strong cables, and steam...
(or cetbang), recovered from the Brantas River, Jombang, East Java. Harpooncannon Speargun Handgonne Java arquebus Istinggar Bedil (term) Feldhaus, F...
shells) or tethered (as with Tasers, spearguns and harpoon guns). A large-caliber gun is also called a cannon. The means of projectile propulsion vary according...
Company after the accidental death of a Tlingit shaman who died in a harpoon-cannon accident while working on a whaling ship. Although the hostages were...
population in the seas. Whales are killed at sea often using explosive harpoons, which puncture the skin of a whale and then explode inside its body. Anti-whaling...
The XM301 Cannon was an externally powered, three-barrel 20 mm rotary cannon made by General Dynamics for the United States Army. Developed for use with...
ISBN 0-87923-773-2 Swivel Guns and Swivel Gun Harpoons Archived 2013-12-12 at the Wayback Machine Lewis and Clark's swivel cannon Swivel Guns or Paterero...
learn about the whaling industry in Finnmark. In 1903, Andresen, with a harpooncannon mounted on one of his tugboats, shot his first whale in Chilean waters...
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