MARVELLOUS SHOOTING.

Evening Star, Issue 15076, 7 January 1913, Page 5

MARVELLOUS SHOOTING.

H.M.S. Thunderer, using Admiral Sir Percy Scott's newest gunnery invention, the fire director, has once more beaten all records in naval (gunnery. Ships of the Second Squadron returned to Portland on November 20, after five days’ firing tests off Weymouth. It is reported on good authority that the Thunderer eclipsed everything previously done. The best day was on the Wednesday, when, in, the presence of the umpire’s ship, the. Thunderer opened fire at 10,000 yds range on a target of the latest pattern.'' The first firing was in groups of five gu,ns. four rounds of lu .a ammunition being got off with excellent results. Afterwards the whole broadside, of 10 guns was fired three times at the target, which at the conclusion of the. firing-was a total wreck, scarcely visible atone mile distance. An examination of the target made by the umpires showed that of the 50 rounds fired no fewer than 41 were direct hits-—a marvellous achievement. The previous best was the Thunderer’s 37 out of 50, made off Berehaven the week before, and that beat the Orion’s previous record of 24 out of 30 at 6,500 yds made before. King George off Portland Bill last May,