A 10-inch shell, for instance, could then be fired from a 16-inch gun.
Being lighter than the 16-inch shell, it would leave the muzzle of the gun at a higher speed.
The disks could be so arranged that as soon as the shell left the gun they would be thrown off, and then the 10-inch shell, although starting with a higher velocity than a 16-inch shell, would offer less resistance to the air.
This is the case with all the guns, chambered as well as unchambered, excepting the 8-inch shell-gun of 63 cwt.
A bursting charge of lyddite in the open may do little damage, even that contained in a 12-inch shell, but the same charge exploded within the decks of a cruiser is multiplied tenfold in destructiveness.
The pieces from the German 8-inch shell carried a long way, and I had L.
He displayed to us with great pride a souvenir found in Ypres, the huge base of a 17-inch shell--it was almost too heavy for one man to lift.
This flange not only shortened the range of the shell by offering resistance to the air, but it was seldom uniform all the way around, a condition giving rise to the idiosyncracies of our 6-inch shell as they were fired at the target.
Another destructive hit was made by an 8-inch shell a few feet forward of the point where the pair of 12-inch shells had come in.
A 5-inch shell burst in the coal-bunkers amidships, blew up the deck, and started a second fire.
In the earlier stage of the fight she had been hit only by an 8-inch shell, which did no material damage.
Trying a third gun, he was perhaps even more fortunate, as it was also hit by a 12-inch shell, and the same thing happened, but shortly after the ship sank and he was saved!
The turret was hit by a 12-inch shell, and he emerged the sole survivor.
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