Direct Hit Ends Battery Practice
TARGET BLOWN UP GUNFIRE IN GULF Heavy gunfire from the North Head forts ceased abruptly this morning, when the target in the I Gulf received a direct hit. In the smother of spray that followed , a shell's explosion it disappeared, ’ bringing the practice to an early close it was arranged that the forts would be in action from 9.3 a.m. unti! midday. Shipping was warned antnearby residents secured breakabU articles and opened their windows. Conditions being good, the firing began according to schedule. Two groups, each of tire rounds, were fired and after adjustments were made on one gun it carried on. completing sevei: rounds. Adjustments were then made to the second gun. but the excellence of tho I laying was such that the first shoi ’ hurtled home and blew the target oui I of existence. Considering that the target was a four-foot oil drum, appearing as a bobbing speck on the waters of the channel, the' feat was distinctly an unusual one. ; "Conditions were satisfactory and j the laying was excellent, said Captain ' C. J. Duff, in commenting on the results of the curtailed shoot.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 826, 21 November 1929, Page 1
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191Direct Hit Ends Battery Practice Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 826, 21 November 1929, Page 1
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