Running out the Gun - Pandora Gallery
Be part of the Gun Team on HMS Pandora. Load and fire a cannon, just the way they did in the 1790s!
Running out the Gun takes place at 11am and 2.30pm daily.
Covered shoes must be worn to participate in the cannon firing activity.
HMS Pandora - Extract from the Pandora Research Feature on the QM’s corporate website
The Royal Navy frigate HMS Pandora was dispatched to the South Pacific in 1790 to capture the 25 men who had "pirated" the Bounty and cast adrift her captain, William Bligh. The mission to reclaim the Bounty and to capture the mutineers and bring them home to stand trial was entrusted to Captain Edward Edwards. On her South Pacific voyage, the Pandora was carrying a special armament of 20 six-pounder carriage guns and 4 eighteen-pounder carronades.
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