Eureka Reporter | 1904-03-25 | Page 5 | Britain Has Powerful Gun

britain has powerful gun the 12 inch vickers maxim gun 1 now the heaviest and most powerful mounted on a british battleship this weighs 60 tons of which 14 tons A shot as heavy as six men being fired with twenty times the ve locaty of an express train are represented by miles of wire wound round and round it and la 41 feet long it dispatches a projectile weighing pounds the weight of halt a dozen men with euch terrific force that it will pierce 38 inches ot wrought iron at 1000 yards and only 4 inches less at that distance this projectile leaves the with a velocity of over 1 miles an hour twenty times the speed of an express train at its fastest and ath an energy equal to 40 tons