The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-09-30 00:00:00

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, • 'OHS INNATAXT EXPTIIIYENTS AT SHOllinitTnies.
r-Oa Thursday morning the experiments which last
smelt elicited such startling results with the guns and
the% of Mr. Whitworth • were again resumed on a
,laStsei Sid store important sonic, In the presence of •
numbs* of officers end scientific gentlemen, at the old
praetlee-gronnd at Shosberyness. The sun used on
this oiden was an ordnanee muzzle loader, omen-
facturedat Woolvtich on Sir. W. Armstrong's wrought-
iron eoil principle, but with the beautiful hexagonal
hoes of Mr. Wititavectlitiodue of rifling. Its weight
we. 7 told Leidy 114 shout /2 feet, and its
kelt* • 1407pouniettis in fact, capable of
'an quite Equal to t Meg it shot of at lend double
tthat, weight*lth perfect'safety. It wail plaed on •
platferin it a dietaries ofyardefrom the see Mon of
the Warrior target, linger range by 400 garde, than
en has hithedo been kid at Ethoeburynes• to passe-
gash a formidable, Snags of iron and leak. The
dined it on this ovoid= was a built-up section
iangeresenting the Worrier's. side. It was not, however,
ongiud eld Warrior. target. whiolt diving the 'oursa
of the 6st twelve months hat been so constantly and
!unmercifully battered thatitlias at last been withdrawn
, front active seriko. It was a new target, specially
made for them experiments, ft feet long by 15 high,
constricted on the sense principle as the old one—
namely, with 4i inch Iron plate, 18 inchne dim& beams
laid transversely, and an inner skis at iron fire-eighths
of an inch thick, supported by must've upright angle
bens, at Intervals of eighteen Indies apart. It is but ,
fair, however, to Mats that the four-and-half inch
'anomie platen which wavered this powerful combination
of teak and iron were not manufactured by the Thames
Iron Oompany,and were undoubtedly' inferior in powers
of resistance to the splendid plate with *high the first
Warrior target was eoated by that company. Some few
shote were first fired from the Whitworth with lew
charges, at • wooden target, to get the range, though
even these were not without interest, as illustrating
! the wonderful presision with which it threw its prole*.
! The first • experimental shot was fired with a
chupsol 2514. of powder and • solid hexagonal shot
12211 n., the piece being laid at half a degree
of • evation. It struck the left centre of the target
within an inch almost of the white 'pot at which it
was aimed, and at the instant of the tremendous con-
cussion of the metals • bright sheet of flame was
emitted as if • gun hadibeen fired from the target in
reply. This shot Famed completely through the
armour plate, shattering the teak beyond into minute
splinter', and fell full upon one of the massive vertical
, angle lines we hive mentioned, which it tore in half
las it it had been paper' sending its screws,
bolts, and rivets, in all directions. The shot,
however, did not pass through the target, but
remained buried in the teak, with its fist head
rating against the broken Annie iron. Bat the fracture
*Made the omit worm than a mere penetration. It
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EAltas bulged and teen- wide in many places, so that in
4,40 S lath a shot striking on the
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