Report of the British naval and military operations in Egypt, 1882 . 311 The following sights are supplied with the gun: One tangent scaleof steel, graduated in degrees, from 0° to 15°. The head of the scalehas a slow-motion arrangement for reading to minutes, and a deflection Method of uncoupling gun. leaf. Immediately beneath the sighting-notch is a small circular hole,which is used for fine laying in combination with the cross-wire fore-sight. One fore-sight, screwed into a sight-ring shrunk on to the chasein front of the trunnions. It consists of an ordinary hog-backed s
Report of the British naval and military operations in Egypt, 1882 . 311 The following sights are supplied with the gun: One tangent scaleof steel, graduated in degrees, from 0° to 15°. The head of the scalehas a slow-motion arrangement for reading to minutes, and a deflection Method of uncoupling gun. leaf. Immediately beneath the sighting-notch is a small circular hole,which is used for fine laying in combination with the cross-wire fore-sight. One fore-sight, screwed into a sight-ring shrunk on to the chasein front of the trunnions. It consists of an ordinary hog-backed sight,standing on a small open frame containing cross-wires. The gun consists of three parts—the chase A, the truunion B, andthe breech-piece C. Fig.
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