An item reported that the in England built Japanese battle cruiser Kongo executing gun trials in the Irish Sea including a broadside salvo’s with the complete battery of 8-35,6 cm and 8-15cm guns. In such a salvo was 8,5 ton of projectiles fired. During the trials were totally 27 ton of projectiles fired, costs 72.000 Dutch guilders.(1)
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1. Of the Kongo-class consisting of the Kongo, Haruna, Hiei and Kirishima. Laid down at Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom on 17 January 1911, launched on 18 May 1912, completed on 16 August 1913, In 1924, 1927-1928 modernized and reconstructed September 1929-31 March 1931 reconstructed into a battleship, after modernizing 1 June 1935-8 January 1937 was she a classified as a fast battleship and torpedoed and sunk by the American submarine USS Sealion around 55 nautical miles north west of Keelung after entering Formosa Strait 1 day earlier on 21 November 1944. Designed by the British naval engineer George Thurston.
