erated rate of fire; That the remarkable increase in the fighting power during the past ten years has been in the matter of and this has been rendered possible by improvements of the ships of the Pacific fleet is due to the guns and armor. In 1897 our navy was in a parlous in the mounting of the… … turbed by the discharge of the gun, our naval officers, was only two out and he is enabled to keep the cross of every hundred shots fired. Since wires in the eye-piece of the close of the war, our the telescopic sight upon Naval Bureau of Ordnance the target with great ac- has done most creditable…
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