FORMIDABLE WEAPONS
i FOR BRITISH BATTLESHIPS. | LONDON, January 29. The “Daily News” says that the new Hi-inch guns, of which the Rodney and Nelson a! - mounting nine apiece, are believed to outclass the rest of the world V naval ordnance in range, accuracy and destructive powj or. The shell, weighing 21.°-0 pounds, leaves the muzzle with a velocity of miles per minute and would pass I clean through a block of wrought ! iron five feet thick. I Excluding mounting, flic gun weighs .108 tons, and the bote Is 00 feet long, over which are wound over 100 miles 1 of steel wire. ! It takes .a charge of ISO pounds of I'Cordite, and despite its weight can be | loaded and fired in 30 seconds. ! Thus, the Rodney ran discharge approximately IS tons of shells a minute at a range of 25 miles.
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Northern Advocate, 31 January 1927, Page 6
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