NAVAL GUNNERY.
NEW BRITISH MONSTER GUN.^ Jsy Telegraph-PrOss Association-Copyright London, February 21. Tlio "Horning Tost" announces that trials of a'lain, bore naval gun,, also of a 3in. Maxiui, firing" shells fed into the magazine from a band, havo taken place. The guns will, tho paper 6tates, provo invaluable, to'a' battleship in resisting torpedoers. ' GOOB GERMAN GUN-PRACTICE, (Rec.-February 2G,. 5.5 • p.m.) Berlin, February 25. The armoured cruiser Scbarnhorst, while travelling at from 11 to 17 knots, mado 18 hits out of 22 shots at a range of IMO yards with her 8.2 inch gnus, and 26 hits ont of 32 shots with her 5.9 inch pins. The Scharnhorst, a vessel of 11,120 tons displacement, and a speed of 22 71 knots, was completed in 1908. Her armament consists of'eight B.2in. quick-firing guns, six 5.9 in. guns,, twenty 3.1 in., and eighteen smaller quick-firers.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1062, 27 February 1911, Page 5
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142NAVAL GUNNERY. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1062, 27 February 1911, Page 5
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