what can you tell me about its armament?
According to the official armament plan "Kronan" was to be equipped with 124–126 guns; 34–36 guns on each of the gundecks and an additional 18 shared between forecastle and sterncastle decks.
Kronan (ship)
According to the official armament plan "Kronan" was to be equipped with 124–126 guns; 34–36 guns on each of the gundecks and an additional 18 shared between forecastle and sterncastle decks.
when was kronan built? The construction of "Kronan" lasted from 1668 to 1672 and was delayed by difficulties with financing and conflicts what was its purpose? It served as the flagship of the Swedish Navy in the Baltic Sea who designed it? UNANSWERABLE
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Kronan (ship) [SEP] Armament
For boarding actions "Kronan" was equipped with 130 muskets and 80 matchlock or flintlock pistols. For close combat there were 250 pikes, 200 boarding axes and 180 swords. During the excavations, large-caliber firearms were found – "hakebössor", similar to blunderbusses; they were equipped with a small catch underneath the barrel which allowed them to be hooked over a railing to allow it to absorb the recoil of the charges. One "hakebössa" was still loaded with a small canister containing 20 lead balls that would have been used to clear enemy decks before boarding.