THE BOYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
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w COMMITTEE TARGET. 
Pive rounds were fired at the left side of lower plate. 
Nature 
of 
ordnance. 
Charge 
in lbs. 
Nature 
of 
projectile. 
68 -pr. 
16 
shell filled 
with sand 
110 -pr, 
12 
w 
JJ 
33 
” 
68 -pr. 
16 
T 
'en rounds 
110 -pr. 
12 
shell filled 
with powd. 
68 -pr. 
16 
33 
110 -pr. 
12 
„ 
” 
” 
33 
68 -pr. 
16 
33 
110 -pr. 
14 
solid shot 
68 -pr. 
16 
» 
110 -pr. 
14 
120 -pr. 
20 
140 lbs. 
shot. 
Front, 
Back. 
Struck on junction of middle and lower 
plates 4' 4 // from left side of the target, 
half the indent being on each plate. 
Depth of indent l"-8, diameter 10". 
Struck the target 2' 3"'75 from the left 
side and 2' 5" from the bottom of the 
lower plate. Made a slight indent. 
A bolt started. 
Hit lower plate 3' 11" from the left side 
and 2' 7" from the bottom, making a 
slight indent. 
Struck on the centre plate. 
Hit on lower edge of the port-hole 7" 
from the left side. A piece of the 
plate 9"‘5 long and 2" wide broken off 
and a crack 6" long extended from a 
bolt-hole in the lower plate. Indent 
l"-7. Diameter, 9"'5 
A few small rivets, merely 
uniting the angle-iron to 
skin of ship, were broken 
off. A slight crack (very 
slight) on one of the 
angle-irons where it 
joined one of the iron 
supporting ribs. 
Some of the lead washers 
of the through bolts (in 
the neighbourhood of the 
blows) drawn thinner 
and worked loose; india- 
rubber washer much 
Ten rounds were fired at the right side of lower plate. 
Struck the centre plate. 
Hit on the junction of centre and lower 
plates, and 1/ 95" from the port. 
Depth of indent 1"’2, diameter on lower 
plate 4". 
Hit the plate 7" from the top, and 2 ft. 
from the port. Slight indent. 
Hit the plate 14" from the top, and 3' 7" 
from the right side of the target. 
Slight indent. 
Hit the plate 8"*5 from the top, and 
1 ' 9"*5 from the right side. The 
second and third bolts from the right 
in the top row started, the latter 5". 
Indent l" - 25, diameter 9". 
Hit the lower plate on the right side 
1' ll"-5 from the port, and 8"*5 from 
the top. Indent 2"*05. A crack 16" 
long across the centre of the bulge. 
Hit the plate 3" from the top and 2! 11" 
from the port. Indent 2"* 3, diameter 
8 ". A crack 10"*25 long across the 
bulge. 
Struck the centre plate. 
Hit the plate 9" from the top, and 3' 5" 
from the port on the top of a bolt 
which had previously been started. 
The bolt was drawn. Indent 2"'55, 
diameter 6"*5. A crack 7"*5 long ex¬ 
tended from the bulge. 
Hit the plate l'-5" from the top, and 
4' 11" from the right side. Indent 
2"*9, diameter 8". Slight crack across 
the centre of the bulge. 
Two bolt-heads broken off, 
but none gone in the 
bottom plate; where a 
sheet of vulcanized india- 
rubber intervenes. No 
other trace of injury. 
Two ribs broken clean 
through. Five angle- 
irons broken. Skin frac¬ 
tured and forced out in 
pieces behind, along with 
parts of the india-rubber 
sheeting. One of the 
through bolts had the 
head broken off. 
