Show Training Gunners for Sea When England trains her gunners for the sea she sends them to Whale Island in Portsmouth harbor Here the entire Island is given over o to steel sheds which are built like gun turrets on a battleship The great guns projecting proJecting projecting pro pro- from these sheds are dummies as Popular Science shows though the they are exact counterparts of those on a battleship The prospective officers and men are made to go through the exercise e of range finding loading aiming aiming aim aim- ing and firing these guns as rigidly as if it the they were In a real battle at sea sen The Tine heavy hewy steel stel projectiles are hauled from the magazine b by hydraulic and electric cranes Just as In an actual ship A A Areal real breech mechanism locks the projectile and its powder charge Inthe in inthe inthe the gun while an nn Intricate swivel mounting of steel swings the gun Into firing position |