4.5 Inch Blakely Rifle

Made by Fawcett, Preston and Company of Liverpool, England, this 4.5 Inch Blakely Rifle and others like it ran through the blockade on the British steamship Fingall on November 12, 1861. It fired a projectile weighing 24 pounds and had an effective range of about three miles. This gun and the second gun on the right were part of Fort Pulaski's original Confederate armament.

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