Salt Lake Herald | 1908-02-09 | Page 3 | New World's Record

NEW RECORD Remarkable Work of df f Gun Crews of the Cruiser Maryland at Target Practice Santa Barbara CalY Cal Feb 8 SA A new worlds record at target practice by bythe bythe bythe the cruiser Maryland at Magdlena bay is reported by Stewart Edward Edwar White who has just returned from there on a collier The days average of the Maryland was eight and forty hits per minute I while steaming in n battle formation at atten atten atten ten knots The shots were fired tired at a aI I target twelve by feet teet at 1700 yards The record of hits per gun per minute was made as the Maryland with other ships In battle formation steamed past the target and andI returned firing first from front one sido and an anthen I I then from the tho other It was an aver average average average age for the entire day for the whole battery of about thirty guns One of o the guns on the Maryland made an average Af 61 1255 hits per min minute ute which is ves veC close to the time worlds record for a single gun The worlds battery fire fira record was broken All loading was sas done dono by hand each shell weighing pounds and each charge of powder five pounds The loading drills occupy four or live five hours each day regularly The four ships now at Magdalena under command of Admiral Dayton will return soon to San Francisco without stops on the way Va The other ships will remain at Magdulena bay ba for the present