The Dardanelles Gun was cast in bronze in 1464 by Munir Ali with a weight of 17 tonnes and a length of 5.18 m (17.0 ft), being capable of firing stone balls of up to 0.635 m diameter (25.0 in).

[6] The Ottoman army successfully deployed large bombards at the siege of Salonica in 1430, and against the Hexamilion wall at the Isthmus of Corinth in 1446.

[2] A spherical round made of granite, 63 centimetres (25 in) of diameter, and a density of 2600kg/cubic metre, has a weight of 340 kilograms (750 lb).

The gun was being considered for scrapping by 1850 but this was held off after John Henry Lefroy tried to get it added to the collection of Britain's Royal Military Depository.

[10] In 1866, on the occasion of a state visit, Sultan Abdulaziz gave the Dardanelles Gun to Queen Victoria as a present.