Boarding broadsword is a kind of broadsword used by sailors in the 16th - 18th centuries during boarding battles.
Boarding broadsword is a long -blade chopping-piercing weapon with a straight wide blade without dales , with one-and-a-half and one-and-a-half sharpening. The handle is wooden or metal with a guard like a handle, a cross, a guard. Unlike combat broadswords, which had metal or wooden sheaths , sheaths for boarding broadswords were usually leather . The length of the blade was up to 80 cm, the width was about 4 cm [1] .
In the fleets of Western Europe
In the XVI- XIX centuries. seamen of boarding teams often used a broadsword with a shell- shaped guard called Scallop ( Duzeggi ) [1] .
In the fleet of the Russian Empire
In 1856, at the lower ranks of the Maritime Department, engineer and naval artillery swords were replaced by boarding broadswords. In 1858, broadswords became the property of the midshipmen [2] .
A large number of broadswords were made in Zlatoust in 1852 - 1856 and later. Compared to cavalry broadswords, Russian naval broadswords of the 19th century differ in size, somewhat curved, but more often a straight blade, the presence of oblique ridges on both sides of the end, which are a continuation of the butt and reaching the tip, simplified by the hilt of the hilt [2] [3 ] ] .
Broadsword was used in the navy until the end of the XIX century. Sailors of the Guards naval crew wore broadswords until 1905 , when they were replaced by hatchets [3] .
Since 1885, a special broadsword, however, called a saber, was assigned the dress uniform of naval officers and admirals [2] .
Until 1917, the naval cadets of the Marine Corps , the Marine Engineering School of Emperor Nicholas I and the Separate Midshipman’s class wore the broadsword [4] .
In the USSR Navy
In the USSR Navy, the carrying of broadswords by cadets of higher naval schools was introduced on January 1, 1940 , and was canceled in 1958 [4] .
See also
- Cutlass
- Sword
- Basket Swords
- Boarding ax
- Boarding peak
Literature
- V. N. Popenko, “Melee weapons. Encyclopedic Dictionary ”, AST, Astrel, 2007, ISBN 978-5-17-027396-6
- http://warinform.ru/News-print-20.html (inaccessible link)
- Shopotov, K. A. "AURORA'S SWEDISH ROYAL YACHT AND ZEMIRA 44-GUN LINEAR FRIGATE FOUND." Issues of underwater archeology 1 (2015).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 “Sabers, broadswords, checkers and weapons with a curved blade” , comp. Yu. Kolobaev
- ↑ 1 2 3 “Encyclopedic Dictionary of Russian Life and History: XVIII-Early XX Centuries.”, L. V. Belovinsky Olma Media Group, 2003, ISBN 5224040086 , 9785224040087
- ↑ 1 2 Broadsword (unavailable link) , Cyril and Methodius Megaencyclopedia
- ↑ 1 2 Broadsword Archived on January 22, 2009. (unavailable link from 06/14/2016 [1168 days]) , Russian Humanitarian Encyclopedic Dictionary