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Updated: June 19, 2025
Dover was at that time one of the most strongly fortified places in the world. Its magnificent new harbour had been completed, and its fortifications vastly strengthened and re-armed with the new fourteen-inch gun which had superseded the old sixteen-inch gun of position, on account of its greater handiness, combined with greater penetrating power.
You may not be an actor; but really when you add to that twelve or fourteen-inch space the steep incline of the stage why, you can readily understand how advisable it was for the dead Desdemona that day to stay dead until the play was over.
Subsequently after being cross-examined by me another of the government's naval experts told the court: "It is quite possible for one with a ballistic knowledge such as the defendant's to be able with very little data to arrive at accurate conclusions regarding our new fourteen-inch guns." A word of advice to the Admiral.
The Dewey's torpedo range was two miles, but her commander preferred to be within less than six hundred yards for a sure shot. McClure could now see the leader of the German squadron -a powerful battle cruiser -crowding on all speed. His guns astern, powerful fourteen-inch pieces in twin turrets, were in action, firing huge salvos at his pursuers.
The point they were trying to establish was that it was impossible for a man to have my knowledge of these guns unless he had obtained it first hand from the works in Glasgow. Of course that brought the testimony into technicalities. I managed to involve the Admiral in a heated altercation on the trajectory and penetrating power of the so-much disputed fourteen-inch gun.
You take a sixty-foot pile with a fourteen-inch butt and try to shove it down through the hatch, and you've got a job on your hands. And after the hold is half filled you've got to quit loading through the hatch, cut ports in your bows, and shove the sticks in that way.
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