3-047-034 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late trial of ship artillery and armour: effects of the shot on the Glatton Turret, 1872. 'Shot with point broken off in the armour...In the Number of this Journal for July 13, an account was given of the trials of ship artillery against ship armour in Portland Roads. The Glatton, ironclad turret-ship, was fixed at by the 25-ton guns of the Hotspur, and was twice hit. The effects are shown in our Engraving...The second shot grazed the glacis-plate, which is about 3½ in. thick at this part. The shot indented the upper part...and the underside was split in several directions, the crack at its widest part being about ½ in. wide and through the plate. The shot then entered the 14-in. armour, between the ports, to a depth of 13½ in., and rebounded, leaving a clean hole, which had the exact shape of the point of the shot. This shot also bent down the shelf-plate on the gutter'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.