Museums' Exhibitions
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or click on the museum names for musuem information.
Objects in the Nottage Museum.
Index
Introduction
Having been founded as a school for mariners, the Nottage began to recieve gifts from local residents and businesses. At first these were navigational instruments, books on navigation and seamanship, and the ship half models which had been used by local shipyards. Later other items of maritime or local interest were acquired.
As this collection grew, the donations placed on display gradually took on the form of a small museum. This museum is now open to the public during the Summer months when the classes are in reccess.
Objects in the Nottage Museum.
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The Punt Gun
This punt gun was once used on the nearby salt marshes to shoot large flocks of wild duck to be sold in butchers' shops.
It weighs about one hundredweight (50 kilograms) and has a calibre of one and a half inches (37 mm). Its total length is nine feet nine inches (nearly three metres) and its calibre is about the same as a WWII Bofors AA gun.
It would have been firmly attached to the gun punt pointing staight ahead. The punt gunner would aim the whole boat at a flock of swimming ducks (this was not for sport) and when the gun fired the recoil would have caused the punt to go rapidly astern.
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