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{{Short description|Type of naval gun}}
[[File:6 pounder Hotchkiss gun and crew USS Oregon.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A [[Hotchkiss et Cie|Hotchkiss]] 6-pounder rapid-fire gun on {{USS|Oregon|BB-3}}, generally similar to the Driggs-Schroeder 6-pounder. Their 1-pounder and 3-pounder rapid-fire guns were also of this configuration.]]
'''Driggs-Schroeder''' was the name of several [[naval artillery|naval guns]] designed by US Navy officers [[William H. Driggs]] and [[Seaton Schroeder]] for the [[United States Navy]] in the late 1880s, fitted on ships built in the 1890s. Some Driggs-Schroeder weapons were also adopted by the [[US Army]]
These guns were initially produced by the [[William Cramp & Sons]] shipbuilding company,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Database of USA Gunmakers |url=https://www.earmi.it/usa%20gunmakers/d.html |access-date=2024-06-23 |website=www.earmi.it}}</ref> than a separate Drigg-Schroeder Ordnance Company was founded with Cramps' capital, which in 1896 was united with competing [[Hotchkiss gun|Hotchkiss Gun]] Company based in Rhode Island and the American Projectile Company from Massachusets into [[American Ordnance Company]] headed by General Albert C. Ordway.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Image 16 of The journal (New York [N.Y.]), March 21, 1896 |url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84031792/1896-03-21/ed-1/?dl=all&sp=1&st=text |access-date=2024-06-23 |website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA}}</ref> Driggs later founded the [[Driggs-Seabury]] Ordnance Company in 1897, in partnership with his brother Louis Labadie "L. L." Driggs<ref>{{cite book| title=calendar no. 47 |author=Court of Appeals of the State of New York |publisher=The Hecla Press | location = New York |year=1922 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lDR4jF00vFEC&pg=RA4-PP8 |page=8 }}</ref> and Samuel Seabury, a retired US Navy officer.<ref>[http://www.google.com.mx/patents/US839124 Patent assigned by William Hale Driggs in 1906 to Driggs-Seabury Ordnance Corp.]</ref>
Driggs-Schroeder weapons included [[QF 1-pounder pom-pom#United States service|1-pounder]],<ref>American Ordnance, pp. 35–37</ref> [[QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss#US service|3-pounder]] (Navy Marks 2 and 3),<ref>American Ordnance, pp. 36–37</ref><ref>Campbell, p. 147</ref> and [[QF 6-pounder Hotchkiss#United States service|6-pounder]] (Navy Marks 6 and 8)<ref name=AmOrd3739>American Ordnance, pp. 37–39</ref><ref>Campbell, p. 147</ref> naval guns.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-pgtAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA282&lpg=PA282&dq=driggs+ordnance+company&source=bl&ots=J1_KVBcGFV&sig=5wR7k1R1KZr22qOdGm8BLGO32IE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LoYUVc32CMemNtmSgoAP&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=driggs%20ordnance%20company&f=false Lohrer, George L. ''Ordnance Supply Manual'', U. S. Ordnance Dept., Washington: Government Printing Office 1904, p. 282]</ref> All were rapid-firing, what today would be called "single shot", with brass cased ammunition. They were among numerous models of these guns equipped on US Navy ships of the 1890s. Other manufacturers' designs included fully automatic 1-pounder and 3-pounder guns, but not Driggs-Schroeder. Most Driggs-Schroeder weapons were manufactured by the American Ordnance Company in [[Bridgeport, Connecticut]],<ref>American Ordnance, frontispiece</ref> with some manufactured by Driggs Ordnance Company.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=NYA3AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA440&lpg=PA440&dq=driggs+ordnance+company&source=bl&ots=zcPz98JS-M&sig=B_4HsiLdFCgKfobCRfrRU27d6kI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TIgUVYzZFoybgwS9j4PoCg&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=driggs%20ordnance%20company&f=false Executive Documents of the House of Representatives, 1889-90, Washington: Government Printing Office, pp. 440-441]</ref><ref>[http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_1pounder_m1.htm DiGiulian, Tony US 1-pounder guns Mks 1-15]</ref><ref>[http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_3pounder_m1.htm DiGiulian, Tony US 3-pounder guns Mks 1-12]</ref><ref>[http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_6pounder_m1.htm DiGiulian, Tony US 6-pounder guns Mks 1-13]</ref>▼
▲Driggs-Schroeder weapons included [[QF 1-pounder pom-pom#United States service|1-pounder]],<ref>American Ordnance, pp. 35–37</ref> [[QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss#US service|3-pounder]] (Navy Marks 2 and 3),<ref>American Ordnance, pp. 36–37</ref><ref>Campbell, p. 147</ref> and [[QF 6-pounder Hotchkiss#United States service|6-pounder]] (Navy Marks 6 and 8)<ref name="AmOrd3739">American Ordnance, pp. 37–39</ref><ref>Campbell, p. 147</ref> naval guns.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-pgtAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA282&lpg=PA282
[[File:Olympia_C-6_13.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Breech of a Driggs-Schroeder 6-pounder gun on USS ''Olympia''.]]▼
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[[File:American engineer and railroad journal (1893) (14572653078).jpg|thumb|right|250px|Driggs-Schroeder 6-pounder gun being tested.]]
[[File:Easton, Pennsylvania (6616803639).jpg|thumb|right|250px|Driggs-Schroeder 6-pounder gun preserved in Easton, Pennsylvania.]]
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Some of the ships equipped with Driggs-Schroeder guns included {{USS|Texas|1892}}, {{USS|Maine|ACR-1}}, {{USS|Olympia|C-6}}, {{USS|New York|ACR-2}}, and {{USS|Brooklyn|ACR-3}}. ''Olympia'' is preserved with her Driggs-Schroeder 6-pounders intact at the [[Independence Seaport Museum]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]].
Driggs-Schroeder designed a "limited recoil" carriage for the [[US Army]]'s [[3.2-inch gun M1890]], along with a 3.2-inch [[field gun]] based on that weapon with a different breech.<ref>American Ordnance, pp. 42, 49–52</ref> These were perhaps the same gun and/or carriage later prototyped by Driggs-Seabury; neither was adopted by the US Army.<ref name=Ordnance1>{{cite book | last = Ordnance Corps | first = US Army | title = Annual Report of the Chief of Ordnance, ''Field Material section'' | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=FoVFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA53
A 12-pounder gun on a limited recoil carriage for naval [[landing force]]s was submitted to the [[United States Army Ordnance Corps|US Army Ordnance Department]] in [[fiscal year]] 1895; it was not adopted.<ref name=Ordnance1/><ref>American Ordnance, pp. 39–42, 49–52</ref>
An Army [[4"/40 caliber gun|4-inch/40 caliber]] Driggs-Schroeder rapid-fire gun also existed,<ref>American Ordnance, pp. 42–44</ref> probably the same as one of several Navy guns of this type. Only four were emplaced by the Army in [[seacoast defense in the United States|coast defense]] mountings; two at [[Fort Washington Park|Fort Washington]], Maryland 1899–1921 and two at [[Fort Warren (Massachusetts)|Fort Warren]], Massachusetts 1899–1925.<ref>Berhow, pp.
==References==
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* Munsey's Magazine Volume XXVI, October 1901 to March 1902, p. 880. Article paragraph covered the Driggs-Schroeder 6-pounders carried on USS ''Olympia'', USS ''Brooklyn'', and USS ''New York''.
[[Category:Naval artillery]]
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