1904 Peça 75mm Schneider Canet, Palácio de São Lourenço, R. Gustavo Silva, Funchal.

The Schneider Works located in Le Creusot in Burgundy started designing Artillery Ordnance as soon as the forbidding of war material exportation had been abolished by the French Government in 1884. With the help of the engineer Gustave Canet, the company designed numerous very good Guns that were sold in big quantities to many countries but France, this country preferring the use of Reglementary Weapons designed and manufactured in the State Arsenals (and sometimes contracted anyway to Le Creusot Plant...).

Within the best sellers was the 6th version of a modern 75mm / 76.2mm Quick Firing Fieldguns family, present on the Schneider catalogue with the denomination 'PD' (= Puissant, ligne de mire organisée pour la Division des opérations de pointage) (English - Powerful, organized line of sight for Pointing Operations Division). The ''Canon de Campagne de 75mm Schneider PD06'' was equipped with the very good quick action Schneider-Canet breech, and a hydro-pneumatic recoil recuperation system that had nothing but envy for the one of the famous Reglementary Gun 75mm Mle 1897.

The 75mm PD06 Gun was delivered to :

Serbia, that had in 1914 45 Batteries of the PD06 (76.2mm - called 75 M 1907) version and 40 Batteries of the PD06bis (75mm - called 75 M 1907A) version, that is a total of 380 Guns that were almost entirely lost to the enemy during the epic and disastrous retreat of the Serb Army in December 1915. Some of them had already been captured by Turks in 1912 during one of the Balkans Wars.

Portugal (seemingly together with an early version 'PD') with 144 Guns delivered, named ''Peça Schneider-Canet 7.5cm m/904-906''.

In 1915, on the direct intervention of Lord Kitchener, Great Britain obtained from its Portuguese Allies the delivery of 56 Artillery Pieces of this Gun to the Belgian Army. The piece took there the name of ''c75 SP'' ('SP' = Portuguese Schneider) and remained in service until complete wear in 1917. Some of the parts had been used in Guns of DCA or edge.

General characteristics:

▪︎Type: 76.2mm Schneider Fieldgun PD06 / 75mm PD06 bis
▪︎Place of Origin: France
▪︎Desiged: 1904
▪︎Designer: Gustave Canet
▪︎Manufacturer: Schneider Works / Le Creusot Plant
▪︎Used By: France / Belgium / Great Britain / Portugal / Serbia
▪︎Calibre: 75.00mm (version PD06bis) / 76.2mm (version PD06)
▪︎Weight in Firing Position: 1,063 tons
▪︎Weight for Transportation: 1,722 tons
▪︎Tube Length in Calibres: 31.40 (26.2 calibres for the rifled part only)
▪︎Grooves: 24 constant angle 6° to the right
▪︎Projectile Weight: 14,33lb
▪︎Initial Speed: 1640.22 feet per second
▪︎Fire Rate: Unknown
▪︎Range: 19.028 ft 10.457 in
▪︎Elevation Range: -5 à +16°.

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Taken on: August 17, 2016

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