thirty-and-a-half

Updated: May 20, 2025

He traces for us, below, the course of the thirty-and-a-half centimetre shell that pierced the ship. "At the same moment all became dark; you could not see your hand. Then we found that one of the starboard forward guns had been smashed, and the crew all killed. We had forty men killed instantly, and many more wounded: no man escaped in that part of the ship.

Lafcadio Hearn - Kokoro : Japanese Inner Life Hints