Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Ships, guns, and historical archaeology / Sauro Gelichi and Mauro Librenti
  • Venetian guns for and from the sea
  • Morphology and constructive techniques of Venetian artilleries in the sixteenth and seventeenth century : some notes / Marco Morin
  • Venetian ordnance in the shipwrecks of the Mediterranean and Atlantic Sea / Carlo Beltrame
  • The race to big calibres during the first war of Morea and Sigismondo Alberghetti's guns of new invention / Guido Candiani
  • Two Venetian swivel guns from Messina Strait, Italy / Rossella Scordato
  • A Venetian ship sunk in Cyrenaica at the beginning of the 18th century / Sebastiano Tusa
  • Italian production of naval ordnance between the 15th and 17th centuries
  • Genoese ordnance aboard galleys and merchantmen in the 16th century / Renato Gianni Ridella
  • Bombards in Savona in the 15th and 16th centuries / Furio Ciciliot
  • Guns and profit : Tuscan naval artillery in the 16th to 17th centuries / Niccolo Capponi
  • Armed ships of the post-medieval period in Croatia / Irena Radic Rossi
  • European ordnance aboard the ships (15th-17th centuries)
  • Did naval artillery really exist during the modern period? : a brief note on cannon design / Javier Lopez Martin - Stowed or mounted : the Spanish Armada of 1588 and the strategic logistics of guns at sea / Colin Martin
  • "A jewel of great value" : English iron gunfounding and its rivals, 1550-1650 / Ruth Brown
  • Ships and guns of the Tudor navy, 1495-1603 / Robert Douglas Smith
  • The British sea service mortars : some notes on their evolution with particular reference to the drawings of Albert Borgard, c. 1700 / Martino Ferrari Bravo
  • Sixteenth-century French naval guns / Max GueÌ⯵t.