Show high angle Cuu nery some important experiments have been made at the shoeburyness school of gunnery m high angle firing the experiments were made with the 9 inch or 23 centimeter gun used as howitzer an elevation of 37 degrees was gh en and battering charges were used with shells out of 4 shots 3 fell within a space of feet by 80 feet representing the deckoff dec kofa first class iron dad and the range attained was 12 miles what is very important too is that the heavy charges and the high angle did not strain either gun or carriage in the least and one of the officers present has said that he believed the gun would stand 45 degrees of elevation without injury while with 42 degrees a range of fifteen miles would be secured now abc fifteen miles a ship is hull down so it has come to this that we can throw a 9 inch shell on to the deck of a ship before wb can see it |