Tli© American newspapers have been obtaining sifcatistiiios about., the cost of ithe fleet's tour. The fieeit, it ajppeails carries 776 guns, and it will cost the taxpayers of tlie Ua*'.ted United States £8500 an powder u;nd fciiot if the lAidimirail 'contents himself with firing only one sliot from each of bbc 776 gU'tis of !his fleeit duiing ta.rg'et practk-e. Hi's men will use up to 49,15411? of 'pawdei* in one broadside -when they open firei on the canvafe tarlgets which take <the place of real ships in their practice. If arpi-oiur-pienoing shells were vised thteii' total weight would ibe 112,2'721!b: But in practice (to-.sav-e expense) substitutes of icasit iron will".be used, and the estimate of cost takes this a' 4; iutoi 'considteraitdon." Ib a • single broadside the fleet of baittlehips would 1 hurl mo>re /than 45 tons of ineital.
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Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10441, 15 June 1908, Page 4
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Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10441, 15 June 1908, Page 4
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