line abragat and boats worked by pairs, but otherwisa
the line was apparently not kept, the pairs separat502
to a certain extent as they advanced, and sach pair
working separately. As the story was given to me,
on the first night the line was formed to the right on
the right of the leading boat, and on the second night
on the left of the leading boat It may not be of
importance, but possibly in the darkness and silence the
latter method of forming line would be easier.
the small
As far as I have seen the only real
damage done to any of the forts by the various bombard-
ments was the disabling of two gunā. One of these ans
the gun in Port No.5 which was cut in two by an enfilad-
ing shot from a Chinese ship; the other was one of the
two 8" guna on H.P. mountings in Port No.A -
island fort This gun was loaded and "up" when it was
The ring to hit by a shot from No. 3 or No. 4 fort.
which the elevating bars are attached was out so that
the rest of the ring and the elevating bars fell back-
wards. The shot came rather from the front of the
gun so that the ring was apparently forced backwards
by the blow.
One gun in Fort No. 10 was touched but
not injured.
I only came across one Range finder in
the
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