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The HellBurners had been disguised with burning barrels on the decks to make them look as normal fire ships. The delay would be set, the ships would be loosed to drift into the Spanish fortifications, and with luck blow the whole works to hell.Ī number of conventional fire ships were prepared & launched ahead of the two Hellburners.

To set off his bombs Giambelli contracted a local watchmaker to construct a clockwork mechanism linked to a flintlock igniter.

He basically turned the ships into giant pipe-bombs. Above and around the chambers was packed barrels of scrap iron & chunks of rock. Then finally capped off the chamber by roofing it with tombstones. Then he packed these chambers with 7,000 pounds of the best quality black powder he could get his hands on. Then in the hull he laid down a floor of brick, then built stone walls to make a chamber about 6 feet wide by 30 feet long. He took two smaller ships (about 20 tons) and stripped them down. To break the siege Italian engineer Federigo Giambelli devised a scheme to destroy the barricades. Barricades were constructed across the rivers that supplied the city, with the hopes of starving the population into submission. Back in the late 1500’s The Spanish were laying siege to the Antwerp. Quite a bit after the Medieval period, but the Renascence/ Early modern period had some awesomely impractical weapons.

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