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Firing a 9-Pounder Gun from a Moving Torpedo Boat Destroyer 

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Firing a 9-Pounder Gun from a Moving Torpedo Boat Destroyer

This photograph shows, in a marvellous and convincing manner, the kind of life which our sailors live on one of the speedy torpedo boat destroyers. Although the decks are crammed with engines of destruction, and the machinery for propelling the vessel takes up so much room that there is scarcely space to look about, the excellently disciplined bluejackets train their guns upon a distant target and fire with marvellous precision every time. In this film the gun is seen loaded and fired several times, and the effect of the rolling clouds of smoke and the sparkling, moving water at the vessel's side are very realistic. The gun is a Hotchkiss 9-Pounder, and the photograph was taken on H.M.S. Torpedo Boat Destroyer Daring, travelling at twenty-three knots.

The Era, London, November 17, 1900, p. 30.

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1 Hepwix Films 200   
2 n.c.  
3 ≤ 17/11/1900 100ft 
4 Grande-Bretagne  

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