THE DEVONSHIRE DISASTER
ADMIRALTY STATEMENT ; ;• _ • (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, 30th Juiy.V : '\ The Admiralty announces that.-it has been ascertained that the cause, of the •' recent gun accident on the cruiser-Do--•; vonshire is attributed to a hangfire >oT very short duration in one gun owing--j----to the simultaneous discharge of- other guns in the same turret. It-was pi-ob-'•"-ably momentarily thought the gun in question had also fired, and the tion of reloading was therefore commehc-... ed. It appears probable that the v ihis-'/,\ take was immediately discovered;-' before it could be rectified the char,ge r iii.''-' the gun exploded and hlew out the- pkr' tially unlocked breech block." The-"great"": force of the explosion, also ignited -coi*""' dite charges waiting in their containers to be loaded for the next round.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 31 July 1929, Page 5
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