Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-03-24
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Ths Pilisbnrgh Chronicle has the.tolloW.
ingintsressiag information regarding the pro-
poood so.iDeh guns and the kind Of pFojec-
tiles psopossd'
Isa very hastily prepared article yesier-
day, We stated that Capt Rodman has long
been anxious 70 haVe constructed g gun Of
twenty Inch bore, which be thinks may Be
sucso nlly cag, on the hollow principle, and
losdsd ead mannuvred with The greatest fa-
cility. The length Of such gun would be
twenty ieet and he weight 100, 600 pounds.
It would carry q ball weighing one thousand
pounds and 6 shell weighing nine hundred
and twenty-five pounds. The charge Of pow
der required would be considerable over one
hundred pounds, exclusive Of some flty
p0ands which it would take to ill the shell.
Capt Ro1man estimates the living force Of
one Of thess shells to be equal TO ssvea tsa
ilsk eolid stot There Is no ship, iron clad
or olhsrWiss, that could Withstand such a
proiectile Such are the guns which Nr,
Fox tie real head Of the Navy Department,
dsmanda aad We have 10 doubt they viii
speedily Be made, in Pittsburgh, or else
Ehera
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had q ffleen inch bore. The second, or
aUnion" gun, bad, We believe, but q thir-
tesa inch bors but being Fifed, it could throw
IN elongated ball Of greater weight aud 70
9 greater distance than the other II now
there's canstEuslei 9 riasd tWenty-ineh bore
gun, throwing q weight Of metal at one dis
charge Of full half ton, there is no iron
plated ship side ever invented which eoald
Eesisti tis II lie projectile could not perforate
the thiokesi iron plates, It would certainly
cone upon them with such ponderous and
orusblne weight as 70 thoroughly displaee
then 80 destroy The postsFioE timbers and
render TIE vessel leaky snduseless 8
Bat wat would b TIE terrific effect pro-
dnead i he balls nsed In such guns were Of
Uros1hi ira1, instead Of esst iron, or, better
sill. q stsel. In the tfialsi atsly made with
such q maiied section ef 6 ships eide like The
warrior, immense balls, Of over bundled
pouads shoWered OF nom its imprsneiTable
sides like powder. Plates could even prob.
ably Be made 80 thick and tough that tDrog0hf
iron ballE would Be harmless, and bound
baok fsttensd and crushed; bnt We ars in-
fornas1 that hard stssI balls viii cut and pens
eizale through snyihina, and prove perfect
u ire istible % any arnor that can bamades.
Hes iags ball could Be Csss Of stsel -ogs
Whelhef hey would prove elective beyond
. csfiin sise, hss not yet been asoeEtained
LazRs balls Of WrOught iron Or sisel would
Be frightully expensive, BAT Il, when ipros.
ioet1S fron fhosa monster tWenfysinch quns,
they prove, Is t thought they Wiii, COM
plssa protection 70 haFb5Fs sgainat the bsaY-
lest msil-clad vessels yet fashioned they
would not be hundreith part as expensive
e the monster ships themselves, or floating
batteries ike those 0f Sieveds. The mail
elad SHIPS ROW beng made ia Rneiand cost
each abOut 50, 300, ,000, which sould pay for
enough 10-inch guns With wrought iroa balls
% sink Wkols nsvies. A Mr. SEstt, Of our
OHn city, has, We learn, just received q pstsnt
for steel balls, and tie frm Of Robinson,
Minis 4 90 are now manulagturing them 70
be tried il Washington II they turn out q
slessE as We have no doubt they win, we
Sc 70 rsason Why they cannot be made and
kammt.sd % any requisite size.