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In the case of various big liners, more than 500 feet long, no accurate range could be made for shelling at from three to five miles the usual shelling distance while at eight miles the vessels melted into the ocean-mists. But the first trials of the system were conducted at Newport, in 1913, in conjunction with Lieutenant Kenneth Whiting, of the submarine flotilla.
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