Michael

Nobody fires 30 guns at a time any more.  We have an annual festival on Memorial
Day where we re-enact a tea party that never happened.  Our 18th c. English
warship (small, but built to period plans so VERY accurate) fends of the
colonists who are all firing rifles as they march down High Street from the
Court House to the River.  We are at anchor a couple of hundred feet out and we
fire perhaps a dozen shots out of four 1 pound cannon in 6-8 minutes and that is
plenty hectic for me - very loud.  This is a reproduction from the 1625 Vasa.
She had 24 12 pounders like this on each side along with 3 smaller guns on each
side.  Imagine 24 of these going off in quick succession, then again less than a
minute later, and again less than a minute after that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpNS0JpnUNY:

Ed Minch