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Show Britain Haa Powerful Qua. The 11 Inch Vlckera-Maxlm gun It now the heaviest and moat powerful mounted on a British battleship. Thla weigh 60 tont, of which 14 tout are represented by 120 mile of wire wound round aud round It, and la 41 feet long. It dispatch a projectile weighing weigh-ing lt0 pound th weight nf half m doten men with auch terrlflo force that It will pierce II Inches of wrought Iron at 1,000 yard, and only ':? .''.,et'7!r w-aV A shot a Heavy aa Slg Man Being Fired with Twenty Tlmea tha Velocity Ve-locity of an Express Train. 4 Inches lust at twice that dlatance. Thla projectile leavea the mutxle with a velocity of over 1,010 mllea ao hour twenty time the tpesd of an aipreia train at lu fasteet and with aa energy equal to 40,220 tona. |