Now THAT'S a BIG bullet!

[David2011]

As I remember, That prop moved the Ship at a rate of 6 inches per gallon of fuel !

That makes the Queen Mary sound downright economical at 9”/gallon.

Just remember to keep that puppy between the minimum and maximum loads - I checked my loading manual but the page for that one seems to be missing?

I used to shoot with a group and we had a 10 pound Parrott Rifle (3" Civil War cannon). We did live fire with it and we hit a junked out National Guard pickup at a mile and a quarter at an "Artillery Through The Ages" shoot one time - just about maximum range for a 10 pounder rifled tube with a service load of 1 pound BP. That thing makes it look like we were playing with tinker toys!

Thanks for the photo - very interesting!

Minimum charge is two bags; max is four bags. A bag was 105 pounds.

Remember, this was 1914 technology.

Be sure to check out the video on the New Jersey’s 16” powder linked in the original post.

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Are ya sure about that?????

Range is ~20 miles. Outer space starts at 60 miles high.

I was afraid some new scientist might chose to pursue that. Okay, but notice the quote-unquote marks; they are meant to convey that while it wasn't literally in outer space (as defined by a modern text book) but those shells flew higher than anything had previously flown.

I've read that the WWII navy gunners felt they were indeed firing that shell through outer space. Thus, no matter how high it actually flew, for this discussion I'm satisfied with seeing the trajectory and quoting it the way those young men saw it.