Artillery Practice before the Prince of Wales at Malta, 1876. '...exhibition of practice with the powerful batteries of artillery mounted at Fort St. at targets placed some distance from pieces of artillery used were 11-inch guns, 110 lb. breechloading Armstrong's, 80 lb. and 61 lb. Palliser's converted guns. The Prince was at St. Elmo, on the concrete roof of the magazine below the lighthouse, attended by the Governor and Lady Van shot practice was fair, and the time-fuse shell practice was good; that of the Maltese Artillery was very good. Windows
Artillery Practice before the Prince of Wales at Malta, 1876. '...exhibition of practice with the powerful batteries of artillery mounted at Fort St. at targets placed some distance from pieces of artillery used were 11-inch guns, 110 lb. breechloading Armstrong's, 80 lb. and 61 lb. Palliser's converted guns. The Prince was at St. Elmo, on the concrete roof of the magazine below the lighthouse, attended by the Governor and Lady Van shot practice was fair, and the time-fuse shell practice was good; that of the Maltese Artillery was very good. Windows were over St. Elmo, and fears had been expressed that the lighthouse might come the targets presented a very battered appearance when the practice the distance Fort Tigne is seen firing, and the smoke of the lower rising behind standard'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.
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