Het geschut van de Queen Anne. Een reconstructie van de bewapening van het Engelse koopvaardijschip dat in de 18de eeuw voor de kust van Kuinre verging

Abstract

The guns of the Queen Anne: A reconstruction of the armament of the 18th-century English merchantman that was wrecked on the Zuiderzee near Kuinre. 
 This paper focuses on the weapons of the Queen Anne, an English merchantman that was wrecked on the Zuiderzee near Kuinre (province of Overijssel) in the first quarter of the 18th century. The wreck was discovered in a now-reclaimed part of the Zuiderzee (the Noordoostpolder) in 2016 and excavated by the Groningen Institute of Archaeology of the University of Groningen during the summer of 2018. The wreck was well preserved and contained a large number of artefacts, including multiple weapons (flintlock pistols, swivel guns) and plenty of ammunition, including dozens of cannonballs. A substantial part of the ammunition was too large to be fired by swivel guns, meaning that multiple guns were missing from the wreck site. Based on the diameter and weight of the dozens of cannonballs, a reconstruction was made of the full armament of the Queen Anne.