The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-15

est range of a three FOUNDER is a mile
and a half and of a one-pounder about
a mile. There are one. three, and six
pound rapid fire guns, which are large
ly used on all the vessels in the navy.
There are two kinds of one pound
ers. light and heavy. The light gun
weighs seventy-two pounds and is
thirty-three inches in length. The pro-
jectile weighs one pound, Iad to fire ii
requires 2.S ounces of black powder or
81 ounces of smOkeless powder. The
range of these guns is about a mile,
and they are a little more destructive
when the smokeless powder is used
With black powder the initial velocity,
or speed at which the projectile leaves
the muzzle, is equal to 1918 5eet a sec
ond, and the muzzle energy is equal to
the sudden impact of 13.4 tons. Immed-
lately after leaving the muzzle one of
these shots would penetrate IL inch Of
steel, at a distance of 1000 yards it
would penetrate half an inch, and at
1900 yards it would penetrate frac-
ton over a third of an inch.
With smokeIess powder the initial
velocity is equal to 1909 feet a second,
the muzzle energy is equal to 1873 tons
and the perforation is an inch and a
half at The muzzle, 0.55 inch at 1000
yards, and O.S9 inch at 2.OOo yards.
These guns might all be taken from
the battleships and cruisers and in its
work of reducing coast forts the fleet
would never miss them. 1t would still
be covered with thirteen-inch breech-
loading rifles and caIibres down to
three inches. These are very effective
in bombardment. A thirteen-inch gun
is the biggest carried on any battleship
of our navy It weighs 135. 500 pounds.
or COS tons. It's total length is forty
feet, and its greatest diameter forty
nine inches. 1t takes $50 pounds Of
powder to discharge one of these guns,
and the projectile thrown weighs 100
pounds. The muzzle velocity is equal
to 200 feet a second, and at $500 yards
it is equal to 1906 feet a second. The
muzzle energy is equal to 1867 tons
dropped one foot, and this shot will
perforate 1856 inches of steel at the
muzzle.
There are a number of twelve-inch
guns in the service in China. One of
these viii weigh forty-five TONS and is
thirty-six and eight-tenths feet in
length. It's greatest diameter is forty
five inches. It requires 425 pounds of
20 En CHI on
its journey. This shot leaves the muz-
zle at rate equal to 2,1OO feet a second,
and its mUzzle energy is equal to 25,9S5
tons. Il Will penetrate 2416 inches of
steel at the muzzle.
The ten-inch gun will throw a pro-
jectile weighing 500 pounds, and the
charge Of powder weighs 225 to 240
pounds. The gun weighs twenty-five and
seven-tenths tons and is twenty-sev-
en- and four-tenths feet in length, and
its greatest diameter is forty inches.
The muzzle velocity is 1900 feet, the
muzzle energy 1884 tons. and the shot
Will perforate 1915 inches of steel.
The three-poUnders and one-pound-
ers could be taken in boats UP Ala
canal. The marines are well equipped
for guarding the boats. They are armed
with a very powerful rife called the
Lee straight-pull rife. This is a maya
zine gun of .29s calibre and it uses
smokeless powder in it's cartridges and
a steel pocketed bullet. The initial
velocity of this bullet is equal to 2,46O
| feet a Saooud II Mill ,,apa4ro4o s;x-t,-
two inches of dry pine wood fifteen feet
from the muzzle of the gun. and it viii
Kill at more than a mile. The pressure
on the gun when fired is $4,000 TO the
/ square inch. FOrty-f1ve shots a minute
can be fired with it,
! A little of this kind of attention would
| go long way with the Boxer crowd