Capítulo 38: Chapter 24 Jumping Ship_3

Without a linstock, Winters directly used his hand to light the powder with the slow match. He didn't know when to pull away, and as the gases propelled the shot, they also sprayed the powder from the touch-hole, adding a few more burns to his hands, but Winters clenched his teeth and made no sound.

"Boom!" Along with the acrid smoke and a loud bang, six or seven lead balls shot out from the rotating cannon's muzzle, hurtling towards the pirates on the Good Fortune. The battle was too chaotic to see how many pirates were hit, but certainly, some were crying out for their fathers and mothers.

The two gunner warrant officers seemed very dissatisfied with the effects of the bombardment.

In this era, cannons didn't have anything like a depression angle because the shot was smaller than the bore; if the cannon was tilted down, the shot would simply roll out.