The Grieve was a gun barrel breech scratch built by John Grieve in Lima during the War of Guano in 1880 and Salitre. History
In 1879, the Minister of Finance Juan Químper John Grieve was commissioned to make cannons in Lima, during the government of Mariano Ignacio Prado. Grieve construction began asking steel shafts and a barrel train Bolivian Army to have him as a model.
Grieve made his gun at the School of Arts, but the streak did soul in the arsenal of the English railway.
The optional report of the Board appointed by the Secretary of War March 23, 1880 was supportive of the gun and asked Grieve manufactured which can be, because until that moment there was only one piece.
32 guns were manufactured Grieve who participated in the campaign of Lima at an estimated cost of S /. 958.33 of 24 pence. Of these, 28 were taken by the Chilean army and then adapted to their artillery. Twelve guns participated in Grieve's army in the battles of Congress and Placilla Concón the Civil War of 1891 in Chile.
General Features
The gun was similar to Grieve Krupp mountain gun 60 mm, with some variations. This type of gun was in Lima in October 1879 and belonged to the Bolivian army.
As there was a shortage of steel in Lima, Grieve Strapping designed a cold in which the bore is introduced under pressure through a hydraulic press in a bronze shirt, so it is believed that they were bronze but they were of hardened steel.
The core had a diameter of 60.3 mm, slightly higher than Krupp, with a scratch of 18 stripes and a step of 1 turn in 35 calibres.
closure for loading into the stock simple prismatic wedge was identical to that of Krupp. Was forged iron. To prevent gas leakage had a ring seal Broadwell copper and steel. Bibliography
In 1879, the Minister of Finance Juan Químper John Grieve was commissioned to make cannons in Lima, during the government of Mariano Ignacio Prado. Grieve construction began asking steel shafts and a barrel train Bolivian Army to have him as a model.
Grieve made his gun at the School of Arts, but the streak did soul in the arsenal of the English railway.
The optional report of the Board appointed by the Secretary of War March 23, 1880 was supportive of the gun and asked Grieve manufactured which can be, because until that moment there was only one piece.
32 guns were manufactured Grieve who participated in the campaign of Lima at an estimated cost of S /. 958.33 of 24 pence. Of these, 28 were taken by the Chilean army and then adapted to their artillery. Twelve guns participated in Grieve's army in the battles of Congress and Placilla Concón the Civil War of 1891 in Chile.
General Features
The gun was similar to Grieve Krupp mountain gun 60 mm, with some variations. This type of gun was in Lima in October 1879 and belonged to the Bolivian army.
As there was a shortage of steel in Lima, Grieve Strapping designed a cold in which the bore is introduced under pressure through a hydraulic press in a bronze shirt, so it is believed that they were bronze but they were of hardened steel.
The core had a diameter of 60.3 mm, slightly higher than Krupp, with a scratch of 18 stripes and a step of 1 turn in 35 calibres.
closure for loading into the stock simple prismatic wedge was identical to that of Krupp. Was forged iron. To prevent gas leakage had a ring seal Broadwell copper and steel. Bibliography
Carrera, Enrique (1880). Description of the barrel breech Grieve. Printing Estado. Lima.
Grieve Madge, Jorge (1983). Historia de la Artillería y de la Marina de Guerra en la contienda del 79. Industrialgráfica S.A. Lima.
Cortesia: Enciclopedia Wikipedia.
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