The fighting-line was led by the Olympia, which sent 4-inch shells in the direction of the fort at Malate (San Antonio de Abad).
The crews and embarked troops in the LVTs had already had a long morning, complete with hair-raising cross-deck transfers in the choppy sea and the unwelcome thrill of eight-inch shells landing in their proximity.
Fuses made with the composition we shall describe, and for 10 and 12 inch shells, last seventy seconds.
The Russians had at this point alone 530 guns, fifty of them siege guns on permanent emplacements firing eight-inch shells.
Our principal enemies are scurvy, which is mowing down the men, and 11-inch shells, which know no obstacle and against which there is no protection.
I envied his faith, remembering two eight-inch shells which a few minutes before had burst in our immediate neighborhood, cutting off twigs of trees and one branch with a scatter of steel as sharp as knives and as heavy as sledge-hammers.
At Bapaume his battalion was hit by fragments of twelve-inch shells.
Four days before I went in first it was bombarded with one hundred and fifty seventeen-inch shells, each one of which would destroy a cathedral.
Nearer to the line they came under the fire of eight-inch and six-inch shells.
I hit him with three 6-inch shells and he is very dead indeed.
He’d have taken on any contract he could grab too, from 15-inch shells downwards.
I know one works where there are two departments engaged on making six-inch and eight-inch shells.
One of the most inspiriting sights I saw on my tour was in the foundry of a shell factory where the rough forgings were being put through the first stages of their progress to completed six- and eight-inch shells.
This factory is doing six- and eight-inch shells mainly, but the same increased-output programme belongs to every other make in every shell factory I saw.
Moultrie, the commandant of the fort, says that after the battle was over they picked up more than twelve hundred solid shot of different sizes, and many thirteen-inch shells.
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