Bombard (marine)
See also: Bombards
In term of navy, one gives the name of Bombardes to flat-bottomed buildings which are especially intended to carry mortar S and with launching bends S.
In order to increase their solidity, bombard them are doubled in very strong and diagonally crossed borderings. They have one or two masts and carry one or two mortars. The mortar rests on a well, i.e. on a system of also solid frame made and at the same time as elastic as possible, which rises bottom of the hold. The fixed angle, formed by the direction of the mortar and its platform, is of 45°, which is the angle of the greatest range. Sometimes the part turns on the pivot or the sole of its mounting.
Bombard were imagined by the knight Renau d' Eliçagaray, and were employed for the first time by Duquesne, with the two bombardments of Algiers in 1682 and 1683.
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