Fleet battle practice
Item
Title (Dublin Core)
Fleet battle practice
Subject (Dublin Core)
en
Technology
en
Training
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
Title: The greatest game in the world
How the fleet at battle practice hits the target at seven miles
How the fleet at battle practice hits the target at seven miles
Caption 1: Firing a broadside or "salvo." The huge bulk of the ship slides from the force of the mighty blast. The shells contain sand instead of the regular explosive
Caption 2: The range-indicator on the Wyoming. The changing figures of the the range flash up like those in a cash-register
Caption 3: The greatest game in the world is played with gray steel tubes of twelve and fourteen-inch guns that serve up thousand-pound projectiles. These travel at one half mile a second and throw up cascades of white water that can be seen nearly ten miles away
Caption 4: The shells splashes into the water just short of the target and tosses a whirling column of white spray into the air. You can easily follow it (picture on right) as it tumbles along, striking the water again and again, and skimming across the sea in great bounds.
Caption 5: Behind her each battleship of the defending division tows a target at eight knots. The target is a scant four hundred yards astern--uncomfortably close when the big fourteen-inch guns are trained don it. Two targets are towed by this ship
Caption 6: Although the big shells are striking just four hundred yards astern, the errors in the range are either "shorts" or "overs." Lateral errors are rare. The photograph shows a sailor signaling to the range-finder a shot "short" of the target
Caption 7: Picture continued from the opposite page. Two vivid flashes from the enemy ship and two shells "straddle" the target, one just short and the other just over - a perfect shot for range. After striking the water the shells ricochet and bound two hundred feet in air
Caption 8: Stripped to the waist the casemate crew keep the big guns bellowing at the target as it moves through the water miles away
Caption 9: The deep keel of the target is all that saves the craft from toppling over when the twelve-inch shells from the enemy fleet pepper it
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Author: Captain Frank E. Evans (United States Marine Corps)
Photographer: Underwood and Underwood, N. Y.
Photographer: Int. Film Serv.
Language (Dublin Core)
eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
Date Issued (Dublin Core)
1917-03
Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
407-408-409-410-411
Rights (Dublin Core)
Public domain
Archived by (Dublin Core)
Besleu Dinu