Heated shot or hot shot is round shot that is heated before firing from muzzle-loading cannons, for the purpose of setting fire to enemy warships, buildings...

hotshots, or hot shot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hotshot or Hotshots or Hot Shot or Hot Shots may refer to: Heated shot, a heated projectile fired...

the cannonball could be heated to red hot. This was called a "heated shot". (On the shot called "the single deadliest cannon shot in American history",...

type of artillery ammunition similar to canister shots but with explosive submunitions Heated shot Field artillery in the American Civil War Miller,...

Spider shot was a variation of chain shot with multiple chains. Round shot Heated shot Canister shot Grapeshot Duck, B. (2010). Shipwrecks of the Dominican...

hulls, or spars and set fire to the enemy ship. Heated shot Shore forts sometimes heated iron shot red-hot in a special furnace before loading it (with...

(and the difficulty of heating and transporting the red-hot shot aboard ship), heated shot was seldom used from ship-mounted cannon, as the danger to the...

Carolina came under heavy fire from enemy artillery on 27 December. The heated shot set her afire, and her crew was forced to abandon her. Shortly after...

other applications for which small lead balls are useful. In a shot tower, lead is heated until molten, then dropped through a copper sieve high in the...

target. It was used by the Royal Navy between 1860 and 1869, replacing heated shot as an anti-ship, incendiary projectile. Two patterns of incendiary shell...

blown up, apparently by some accident to the furnaces for heating shot. The heated shot had temporarily set Arethusa on fire, she had two men killed and...

a mushroom cloud after the British defenders set it ablaze by firing heated shot. In 1798, Gerhard Vieth published a detailed and illustrated account...

using several different kinds of projectiles: round shot, chain or bar shot, grape shot, and heated shot. Each gun was mounted on a wooden gun carriage controlled...

amidship Dahlgrens nearest the boiler furnaces were fitted-out to fire heated shot. On her upper casemate deck were positioned two anti-boarding/personnel...

floating batteries, with 212 cannons being crewed by 5,260 men. British heated shot quickly destroyed all of the batteries, with 719 men dying. The destruction...

and officer quarters. The Confederates targeted these with heated shot (cannonballs heated red hot in a furnace), starting fires that could have proven...

gun crews of his plans before the battle. Battery Number Seven was a heated shot position, using ammunition particularly effective against wooden warships...

of the largest pieces of the war. Coastal artillery could also fire heated shot. While smoothbore siege artillery had been common previously, the superiority...

cannon responded to Mulligan's with nine hours of bombardment, utilizing heated shot in an attempt to set fire to the Masonic College and other Federal positions...

molten iron, intended to serve as heated shot). Although the cannon's barrel bore was 8.12 inches (20.6 cm), both shot and shells were 7.92 inches (20.1 cm)...

citizens asked Lincoln to surrender. On the same day, the British fired heated shot into the city, burning several homes, and Lincoln felt forced to call...

now had 20,000 defenders. Fighting began the next day, and on 3 July, heated shot set the town on fire. The fire spread to the powder magazine, which blew...

which Laura Baines disappears. Roy goes to meet Finn's widow, who recalls a heated conversation Finn had with Dr. Elizabeth Westlake. Roy goes to meet Dr....

unsinkable. The British used heated shot to counterattack these batteries. These "hot potatoes," as they were nicknamed, were pre-heated to furnace temperatures...

slats between the bags. He also tried to set the tower on fire with heated shot, but was unable to get the balls hot enough. The attackers fired flaming...

thermoplastic and thermosetting polymers. Material for the part is fed into a heated barrel, mixed (using a helical screw), and injected into a mould cavity...

time was MTV's most watched series telecast. The show was the subject of a heated online debate. An article critical of the show appeared on The Christian...

mobile breastworks, the rebel advance was shielded from fire, including heated shot. By early afternoon on the 20th, the rolling fortification had advanced...

noon the artificers had heated up red-hot shot. Once the shot were ready, Elliot ordered them to be fired. At first the heated shot made no difference, as...

operation on transformer-less sets. High-power RF power tubes are directly heated; the heater voltage must be much smaller than the signal voltage on the...