The mariners' handbook; a convenient reference book for navigators, yachtsmen, and seamen of all classes (1906)
International Correspondence Schools, Roden, Ernest Konrad, 1866-, International Correspondence Schools. Pocketbook · Scranton, Pa. : International Textbook Co. · leaf 237
h they are loaded (blackpowder, guncotton, lyddite etc.) and on the nature of thefuse that is used to explode them. Both of these matterswill be considered later. A good armor-piercing shell shouldpenetrate a thickness of hard-faced armor equal to its owncaliber. Thus a 6-in. shell should penetrate… … Fig. 1 NAVAL ORDXAXCE 205 cannot fail to be very destructive to the interior of a shipand to the personnel if they can be made to burst inside.Here again the question of the bursting charge and thefuse comes in, but this difference may be noted betweenan armor-piercing and a common shell; that the…
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