507 
DUTCH TRIADS OF COMPETITIYE PROJECTILES. 
From the Butch , 
BY 
LIEUT.-COL. Le Fer TAYLOR, R.A. 
A report has recently been printed by the Dutch Government on the 
trial, against armour, of projectiles supplied by Ekman of Finspong, 
Krupp, and Griison. The experiment took place at Scheveningen, on 
June 16th, 1879. It has a special interest from the fact that the pro¬ 
jectiles were all fired with a reduced velocity, calculated purposely to 
give bare penetration as nearly as possible. We have results obtained 
with the new 8-in. and 6-in. Armstrong guns, which we propose to notice 
shortly, where the same idea was carried out, beginning at about the 
same thickness of plate, but increasing up to a very high standard. 
The Dutch experiments, if they did not embrace an ambitious pro¬ 
gramme, were at all events carefully carried out, and are therefore 
instructive. The plate fired at is shown in Figs. I, 2, and 3. It 
