| Show FAST FIRING at shoeburyness the armstrong and whitworth committee fired rounds rapid fire from the armstrong 12 breechloader breech loader field gun there was an interval of ten minutes after the first 50 rounds the time as taken by the commatee comm itee was for the first 50 six minutes fifty three seconds and for tho the second 60 six minutes thirty five seconds thirteen minutes thirty three seconds in all thus the gun un was fired throughout out the rounds at the rate of at 7 rounds a ini lui minute nute etwas it was supposed on flie the ground round that four shots were often in th the air at the same time this is by far the most rapid artillery fire on record and it is more than twice as rapid as ever has been accomplished by any muzzle load inggul ing gun Is 0 water was used nor any sponging nor did any hitch of the sort occur at the fifty second round the lanyard that pulls the tile friction tubes broke this caused a delay of twenty se seconds eonAs london artisan |
