Drag Ropes: How are they used??

[Rob Beale]

The image below is the firepower museums 6 pdr. The drag ropes fitted look like early style light ropes with the leather lined eyes.

The stowage hooks for the rope look to have less than 2 yards circumference and there are probably about 6 or so loops of rope wound on.

Two ropes of 15 feet each are 2 x 5 yards = 10 yards

Can anyone measure the diameter of the hooks on the shield to compare with the diameter of the ropes please?

Alternatively can someone wind a 25 pdr rope on the hooks to see whether 30 foot of 1 inch dia rope will fit?

Rob

[tankbarrell]

Rob, as I said in the other thread, 6 pdrs can have two lengths of rope hooks. The shorter ones are not long enough to take a 25pdr rope, hence the reason I started that thread.

Most guns seem to have the shorter hooks as do the later auxiliary shields. I suspect the no2 ropes were 30' long in 2" rope (5/8" dia.).