The target was thirty feethigh and fifty feet long, and in thattime she put through it four 12-inch, nine 8-inch, and seventeen7-inch shells. Consider the rangeat which this work was done, andalso that the target was only aboutone tenth the length of the modernbattle-ship. Instruments for… … Courtesy of the Scientific Aineiicau. and that notwithstanding the fact that his target as well as the ship on which his gun islocated are both rolling and pitching with all the motion of the sea. It is stated on goodauthority that at the time of the Spanish-American war four ijer cent of hits was…
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