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Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Royal British Navy testing 38,1cm guns for battleships according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1911-1912 no. 3

An item referred to the magazine le Yacht reporting that in England 38,1cm/15” guns were tested to be used of the battleships to be built next year. Despite the real calibre were the guns described as 13.5”. Further more were 7,6cm automatic Maxim guns mentioned, which seemed beyond the truth while for anti torpedo boat guns already larger calibres were available. A German magazine mentioned for instance automatic 10,5cm Krupp guns.