EXPENSIVE SHELLS.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 29 June 1916, Page 2

EXPENSIVE SHELLS.

THE type of shell which is fired from the great German howitzers costs £1200. Even the comparatively small field-guns are loaded with v shells which each cost over £2 to produce. The German B,4in quick-firing guns demand a shell which costs £51, and the Kaiser's fortress cannoinfire a projectile valued at £300. The cost of gun-fire in the Royal Navy is very heavy, and a single discharge from a 13in weapon costs at least £800. A battle ship broadside means that £1500 worth of ammunition has gone. In a sea-fight, if the large guns our Dread-, nought only fire 10 shots each and the smaller weapons discharge 25 shells, the cost of ammunition for one battleship during the engagement is £160,000.