BRITISH NAVY.
GUNNERY YESULTS.
| YEARS* TRIAL. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received January 28. 8.5 a.m. LONDON, January 27. The naval gunnery results, published in "The Times" to-day, showth at in 1909 the whloe fleet scored 5,108 hits and 4,330 misses. The twelve and ten-inch guns had increased their average number of this per gun per minute from .40 to .63 since 1907. The China squadron was first in the trials, scoring 68 points; the third division of the Home fleet second, with 49, and the Australian sixth, with 40 points. B.M.S. Encounter scored 62 points, as compared with King Alfred's- 79.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9704, 29 January 1910, Page 5
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103BRITISH NAVY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9704, 29 January 1910, Page 5
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