The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-03-24 00:00:00

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EITIBIXIIIITS AT 8110111CITIMIL-Boroe
ts highlra in-
teresting experimen were tried on Tuesday at de.
lenrynein, with gam on the Whitworth, Armstrong,
and Lena! Thome principle. The target employed
well i extraordinary strength, the plates were of the
best iroa that meld be procured. and of the respostive
thickens ef b. 4,7 i Webs.. The fird Mots
from 68-posailers and Aresseromee 110-pousder minim
gin, with charges of 16 sad 16 pounds of powder, fired
by way of establishing • standard If comparison,
merely Aseled the plates. This same the champion
shots. The Ant wee frost the Armstrong 300-pounder
massia-looder riled gun, weighing 12 toes, with a
solid stml shot of 3001 h., and • charge of 4516, of
powder. This street the middle and thickest plate
right is the *entre, and almost in the ball's-eye,
producing a large dent of three inches in depth, era
slightly creaking • rib behind. The same gun was next
Iced with a Mb steel shell, containing a bunting
charge of 111 b. It struck the lii•inah pietist the left-
Matt comer, pierced it, and burst in the wood backing,
mucking the skin, and breaking throe or four strong
ribs, besides knocking of the beads of some rivets and
bemiring if is. bolt. The weed was set cm Ire sled
No pert if the shell, however, had come through into
the ship, so to speak, neither were there many Meese
if the skin seettered about. The gmeral abakieg of
the whole mass, however, was **ideally
and quite enough to settle the fate if such a ship se the
Minotaur in the fans cif such • women. The Whitworth
fug was now tried with • 14811). shell of ths deetriptioe
used in former experiments in November lane, with •
charge of 251 b. It penetrated the 64-triele plate sheet
four lathes to the right of the bole mad* by the
Armstroag shell, and bunt in the wood, bet without
✓epg through the skin .The notissablo point in this
ex eamit was that the maim and lighter If" with
h the weight of shot and powder, did leest aa
equal amount of mischief. Mr. Lynall Thomas's gnu,
• musabeleader riled, with & WOG Ma bore, mid
weighing 17 tom, aired the target the Ant itme: „free
some loam not explained. The gee was awe eemosa
again with • solid projectile, 18 imbeelom,having Mese
spiral grooves no it to At conesnoedieg Wets is the
here, and mashies 37C5b., with a charge al =b of
powder. This time the target was hit at
considerably
animitiire
of the 74 sod the 61-inch plates, alarp dent of lashes
an deep was made, d the plates w
e
asseked. bat nothing went through. The shot re-
bounded about 25 yards, sad when fished out of the
ditch was Nand to be "set up, ensrai Mobs*, so that it
looked like a bags *sallower, the stalk being the sad
which did sot Mile the target. A solid tempered
steel shot of 3283 b. was then Arid frown this gun, with •
5011 i. Mugs ; it posetests4 the 7j-tesie plat* tithe
just at its lower border, sat "rued the Wash
plate; the pieta was crashed, as well as the skin, a bolt
was broken, and the " numager," a hew, irar-pisos et
tree runniag the whole width of the target, was
knocked completely of on the ground. The last shot
was (ruin fler Win. Armstrong's riled shot gun, with •
150th. spherical smooth shot. with • 41111 e. *harp. This
struck the 54-inch plate where there was no basking,
cracking it widely, 'forting the bolls, and pieetrating
to Si inches. It shook the whole structure severely,
and hedged the plate extensively, but did sot get
through the plate.

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