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There are old cannons that have been used as bollards: https://westevan.org/bollards/cannonbollards3.htm https://westevan.org/bollards/cannonbollards3.htm > T
by _whiteCaps_ 2y ago
There are old cannons that have been used as bollards:
https://westevan.org/bollards/cannonbollards3.htm https://westevan.org/bollards/cannonbollards3.htm
> The one on the right is a real cannon outside the main gate into the original Chatham Dockyard. It is one of a pair (see the gateway photograph in the gallery below). It had been one of the Royal Navy's biggest smooth-bore muzzle-loading (SBML) guns but when it was no longer fit to be used on a warship it was buried breech-down to protect the brickwork of the gatehouse from damage by carts and other vehicles. The muzzle of this one has been sealed off with a cross-shaped piece of iron.
You can also see them as mooring bollards in harbours around the world.
- trhway 2y agoBetween our house and the road turn 30ft away was a thick reinforced concrete pole, a bollard of a kind, severely leaning from being regularly hit by tanks - the road was used by tanks driving from/to loading point, and the tanks in the convoy would regularly miss the turn due to the dust raised by the tanks in front of them.
- mlhpdx 2y agoIndeed. I din't know the term bollard applied to anything other than large mooring cleats. TIL.
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