ENGLISH AND PRUSSIAN ARTILLERY.
During the last two months a series of * ; gunnery experiments, not yet completed, . have been going on at Tegel, near Berlin. > In these trials,- the English Woolwich gun has been pitted against the celei brated Krupp gun. The result/ as J described in the * Pall Mall Gazette/ i» > to demonstrate the decided superiority of the English gun. There were three targets, Bfefore the "Woolwich gunarl rived some practice had been' made with fie 8-inch Erupp gurt at No. 1 target,- at 1030 yards, with chilled steel shell. One l. of these shells, had broken tip- on sinking without damaging the plate; the other had effected a .partial penetration, and remained sticking in the plate, nearly the whole of the cylindrical part being exposed. The 9-inch Krupp gun nearly penetrated' this target, the nose of the' shell, just appearing through the ikia. Whetr the Woolwich gun was discharged at this- target (blind Palliser shell), it penetrated the' target with great ease, the splinters sweeping away the whole of the wood screens erected behind the target. No. 2 target was fired at— at a range of 700 yards— with the 9-inch Krupp gun. It was not penetrated. The shot again s*uck in the target. The Woolwich gun, firing blind Palliser shell, penetrated the target ! e.isily. In every instance, the practice with 1 the Krupp gun, as far as penetration was c'oric'emed,- was more or less of a failure. In every itfsraaee, the English gun and projectiles achieved a complete and remarkable success. The result occasioned the keeuest vexation abroad, and led to 1 many angry recriminations, and even in one instauce, if we are not misinformed to the dismissal of one officer holding a higffr official position! The .result" has been that the' Prussian authorities have remoddled their system of the English patterq. They have adopted precisely the same form of projectile, although the lead which it bears renders it slightly heavier. They have stripped it of its Coating as far as they could venture to do, and they have increased their charge of Prussian powder to 53 lbs., which they find to .be as nearly as possible the equivalent of 43 lbs of English, powder. The Krupp gun then produced the same effect as the Woolwich. It is, however, one or two tons heavier — the- Armstrong weighing 12 tons and the Krupp 14|
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Southland Times, Issue 1080, 28 December 1868, Page 3
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396ENGLISH AND PRUSSIAN ARTILLERY. Southland Times, Issue 1080, 28 December 1868, Page 3
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