File:Brazilian battleship Minas Geraes firing a broadside.jpg
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current | 20:06, 4 January 2017 | 1,857 × 1,332 (1.4 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | Caption from <i>Scientific American</i>: "During the gun trial of "Minas Geraes" ten 12-inch guns were trained on the broadside and discharged simultaneously. The combined energy of the projectiles amounted to 500,000 foot-tons, or sufficient to lift the ship bodily 26 feet into the air. ... The Greatest Broadside ever fired from a battleship." |
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