HMS Surprise exercises her guns.mpg

The port side carronades are all functional and they are working flawlessly when first loaded with a bit of balled up flash paper, then load the cartridge.

I fired these 18 guns 6 times each today and the only problem I had was I forgot to load some flash paper on several tubes during one of the exercises, and I had to worm out the tube. All other tests were absolutely perfect. If you don't count forgetting to turn the camera on.

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[MrGroundpounderz]

i think this took a very very long time to build even if it isn't from scratch

[formerparatrooper]

@MrGroundpounderz Being semi retired at the time and I managed to work on it for 10-12 hours a day at times, it took only 6-months. I continue to add or change details but the ship itself is about the same as when I built it. Thanks for taking time to write, I appreciate it--and as you know--it never rains on the Airborne but when we become infantry we become ground pounder's as well.

[TheFireworkShopUk]

Love it ! - Better than Scarborough Naval Warfare Show !

[formerparatrooper]

@TheFireworkShopUk Thank you very much. I appreciate you taking time to write.

[1kimsland]

sooo cool -0-

[formerparatrooper]

@1kimsland Thank you sir, I appreciate you taking time to write.

[woozypeak]

wondering why a british ship is flying the american flag

[softie1975]

Thats impressive, never seen anything like this before.

Thumbs up for the one who build the boat.

[Martbrant]

Super cool!!

[suncollapse]

Awesome, thanks for posting

[MichaelWMusicCO]

Oh my! That is so cool! My four year old is a ship fanatic! How and where can we get involved in something like this?

Thank you for posting this; again, this is awesome-

[formerparatrooper]

@kdum8 I think my Surprise is hull number 021.