Deseret Evening News | 1906-11-08 | Page 1 | Twelve Inch Gun Very Short Lived

t INCH GUN I VERY SHORT liVED t Gen Crozier Says They Would Not Last Through a Two Hour Engagement GOOD FOR ABOUT 60 ROUNDS SOUI Out soul of burn 11 Gono ono fter I in Shots 10 re IIII llred WD Not 01 tine the 12 Inch I gun I nol now inn In use Uso at most or of th tim coalt coast ot of tire the Stat not last through an or of to Ilc tIre that woul elapse morn tIne Iho time tine 1 hauling vessel 1 of 1 ii tine Iho range until hUt host b beyond ont tine tho range of at tire rI gums II inn the by l 11 r Gen Geir Wm Crozier lt of whoso Whose annual report was ImbUe at the tho sar department lo today o oel el Crozier that It Is o of tine that lomo lie ho whereby tine Iho grim ower Cin Cart bl be H curc with loins leMs tuna that In using the vety high velocities elo les ot of t now era em el with rapid wearing Ilay away or of tine Iho tilling In hun such n maImer 11 us to lu destroy time Iho accuracy ot of 11 the gun al aften 1 1 a few runds The Tho 12 I lurch UI 1 las last for about 61 6 rOII a anti Il as tIre tho lun gun is capable or of for tor tora fora a at tine the rate of 4 43 rUI per hour It ean 1 Ino een that the limit o ml tho life of Ihl gnu could lun ho be In iii less leu tat an hour and ann a thal a half in a if Ian Ine Inde manic with II to o of 1 says S time Iho ns as 11 iii thru Ih velocity In Increaser cresel creaser 1 Urn 1 11 that In and are ala inn In for lor thin alm array powder Co on which Ol Congress baa haB appropriated G In sr speaking or of sinai arms Ile tire grin gen genrl emil rl stains flats tire title 1903 model wal wins sll tO 10 the regular troops II iii time U I S fort their use during the Iho tar target Iet get Ind tim Ih tub of IO knife bayonet al ninth rear sights has haR been to 10 the Iho trop troops In tine tho Islands rind wi will Io inn issued to 10 the troops ire In the Iho arid the nr l issue ICU rozier slates that 1 a her or of militia batteries been sup SUII supplied plied wih tho Iho new Ihl J Inch deini ell ar material lre are holing rapidly ns lh i tin I It