Identifying guns on an East Indiaman wreck is not necessarily as easy as it might at first appear. Such ships were normally carrying a variety of ordnance: guns for their own protection, guns for trade, guns to be used as gifts, and old guns being used as ballast.0305-7445/90/010017+06 %03.00/0
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