We can customize your sponge bucket to fit your artillery piece. Quotation available upon request.
Based upon the R.M. Academy, October 11, 1792, Wm. Rudyard's drawings, Plate 42. This is a French style bucket, doubled headed with locking lid; hand-forged lid chain. Constructed of solid air-dried white pine, 3 steel hoops. Sponge opening approximately 3" diameter. Overall hanging height 13" (including rope bale), widest bottom diameter approximately 7 1/2".
We offer this piece in solid, air-dried white pine with 3 steel hoops and steel hardware; and in solid, air-dried quartered oak with 3 naval brass hoops and naval brass hardware.
