SHOOT AT FORT DORSET
MOUNTING FOR FIELD GUNS
A new type of field mounting for eightoen-poundcr guns was tested at Port Dorset ■yesterday- afternoon, when some fifty rounds of shrapnel were fired at targets floating on the harbour. The gun was set on a board mounting and was secured to and pivoted round a spare wheel, angleirons, mushroom-anchors, and chains being placed in position against the shock of the recoil.
The harbour was calm and the effect of the gunfire could be easily seen, the shells bursting, as pre-determined, fifty yards short of the targets and spreading shrapnel over a wide area. During the practice several vessels, including the Makurn, crossed the danger zone, and the firing had to be discontinued until they had passed. Among those present wero MajorGeneral Sir W. L. H. Sinclair-Burgoss, G.O.C. New Zealand Forces, Colonel F. Symon, Director of Artillery, Colonel S. C. P. IS'icholls, and Colonol J". K. Duigan. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 93, 17 October 1934, Page 13
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155SHOOT AT FORT DORSET Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 93, 17 October 1934, Page 13
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