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way; at A/1 tied up with rope by gun detail; at C/1 kept so by an 
alteration made by I.O.M. using a special spring. 
Firing by electric lanyard; one miss fire at B/l round thirty-two., 
the fault of gun-layer. 
As to materiel. 
On the whole all worked well; at A/1 6" the recoil was not 
sufficient- for first two rounds owing to new asbestos packing of 
cylinders. 
At B/l 9*2" the recoil was very violent and did some damage due to 
amount of air. The air screw means of escape is quite insufficient for 
the purpose with this gun and seriously interferes with rapidity of 
practice. 
Rounds lost. 
(a) . As to direction. 
Three rounds lost. 
2nd No. 15 shot falling 35 L. 
4th „ 17 „ „ 25 „ 
7th „ 20 ,, ,, y, yy 
B.C. gave no deflection until ninth round (No. 22) when he gave 
10 R. to A/1 6". At thirteenth round (No. 26) he gave 10 R. to the 
other two guns with results four rounds L. three rounds R. 
It would have been better if he had given 10 R all round to begin 
with. 
(b) . As to range, etc.* 
No rounds were lost as to this; though some only scored R = |. 
B.C. gave no correction to 6" B.L. until fourteenth round (No. 27) 
when he gave + 50. 
To 9*2" he gave a normal correction of + 100 increasing to + 125 
giving — and then to + 175 which gave +. 
Loss of time. 
At least a minute was lost at A/1 due to hard packing, and at B/l 
(9*2") much time was lost in letting out air by air screw for reason ex¬ 
plained above. This was due to defect in material, also a little on ac¬ 
count of miss fire with electric lanyard due to the gun-layer. 
Service, etc. 
Very good, smart and quiet. 
Lever lengthening cam lever, well applied. 
Gun-layers very good at their work, one error of gun-layer as to 
damage of electric lanyard leads (tube). 
Some minor faults in words of command, etc., as given in a/I. of 
G. ? s report. 
Mode of fire “ slow ” up to third (No. 15) after that “ independent 
group salvo.” 
* It will be advisable to enter summary of range corrections and results for each service 
practice in Fort Record book briefly as a guide. 
