90 
MINUTES OE PROCEEDINGS OF 
No. of 1 
round. 
Nature 
of 
ordnance. 
I Charge 
| in lbs. 
Nature 
of 
projectile. 
Pront. 
Back. 
2 
300-pr. 
40 
150 lbs. 
spherical 
cast-iron. 
Hit the target a little to the right of the 
previous shot. 3' 2" of the plate 
smashed and the wood exposed. A 
piece of the plate 2' 3" x 11" broken 
away. 
Skin broken up; a second 
rib broken. The former 
broken rib driven clean 
out and bent back at a 
considerable angle and 
smashed. Portions of 
shot, wooden backing, 
&c. driven right through. 
Large irregular hole. 
The great square tim¬ 
bers (side view) form¬ 
ing the backing to the 
plates were shattered, 
and the fibre of the wood 
seemed to be drawn 
through the entire length 
of the beams by the pas¬ 
sage of the shot at the 
place of fracture and 
penetration. 
3 
yy 
50 
99 
Struck the lower plate on the right side 
of the port-hole. Made a clean hole 
11" diameter. Centre of the hole 1' 3" 
from the bottom of the plate. Two 
cracks extended to the bottom of the 
plate, but independent of the shot hole. 
Nothing perceptible but a 
few splinters of wood 
raised up from the foot 
of the target, and a few 
nuts loosened. One 
broken off. 
4 
Hit the top plate in the centre of the 
right side. Made a hole 11"* 5 dia¬ 
meter, and the shot broke up in it. , 
Depth of hole 13". 
Struck where the inside 
skin was supported at 
top by two beams with a 
total of about 2 ft. square 
solid timber (thus hiding 
the full effect of the shot); 
but, where it could be 
seen, the skin was bulged 
in, and the 2 ft. of solid 
timbers supporting were 
cracked right through. 
Also heavy beams like¬ 
wise giving support (at 
right angles to target) 
were started, and solid 
granite blocks in rear 
were shaken. 
To be regretted that the 
back of the target, at the 
seat of the injury, could 
not be seen, being hid by 
the beams referred to.* 
* The “Warrior” target has since been taken to pieces, and it has been clearly ascertained that 
this shot, though it cracked the inside skin, penetrated through the teak backing to the extent of 13 in. 
only, leaving a depth of 5 in. of the wood backing into which no fragment of the shot had forced 
its way. 
