32-pounder 56 cwt

32-pounder 56 cwt
Type	Naval gun Coast Defense gun
Place of origin	United Kingdom
Service history
In service	1790's-after 1865
Used by	United Kingdom
Wars	French Revolutionary wars, Napoleonic Wars, Crimean War
Production history
Designer	Thomas Blomefield
Designed	1790's
Produced	1790's-1830's
No. built	in excess of 3,694
Specifications
Weight	56 cwt
Length	9-1/2 feet
Shell	Solid Shot
Shell weight	32 lb

The 32-pounder 56 cwt cannon was an artillery piece designed and used by the British Armed Forces in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It was by far the most common 32-pounder used by the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars, with 1961 guns being recorded as in use and 1733 being in storage at the end of March 1857. The cannon was a smoothbore muzzle-loading gun, being 56 long cwt (2,800 kg), and firing projectiles of 32 lb (15 kg). Sir Thomas Blomefield designed the cannon in the late 1780's and early 1790's as part of his system of gun construction. It was the heaviest cannon used by ships of the Royal Navy from the 1790's to the late 1830's, and it was used on the lower decks of ships of the line such as HMS Victory.

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