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    Sir William Sidney Smith's 1804/1805 catamaran landing craft

    In 1804/1805 Sir William Sidney Smith designed two catamaran landing craft From Tom Pocock's 'The Terror Before Trafalgar: Nelson, Napoleon and the secret war' But while infantry could scramble ashore from ships’ boats, they could do so only in small parties; also the landing of artillery was...
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    Rock Mortars

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3F2odr2MsQ From the comments thread: By any chance does anybody have pictures of this, or other attempts to weaponise the rock cannon concept?
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