From the same source.
Also on the USS Constitution, besides the 4 Chambers repeating guns was one 24-pdr. shifting grenade gun.
This apparently was a British weapon captured by the United States.
The gun was a Congreve "shifting grenade."
Sixty-six shifting grenade guns were found on the British brig "Stranger" enroute from England to Kingston, Jamaica where they were to be used in arming two new frigates being built there. The "Stranger" was captured by privateer "Fox" out of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
A prize crew took it to Salem, Massachusetts, in late September 1814 where they told the U.S. Navy about them.
Not much was known about them, but on February 20, 1815, Captain Stewart and the USS Constitution defeated the HMS Cyane and HMS Levant. Captain Fox of the Cyane wrote that he saw two of these guns on board the American ship.
Unfortunately, a quick look produced no other information on "shifting grenade" guns.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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