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Charles Cammell and Co. Ltd.  10 and a half inch nickel steel [armour plate], tested at Portsmouth [Hampshire]

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Charles Cammell and Co. Ltd. 10 and a half inch nickel steel [armour plate], tested at Portsmouth [Hampshire]
Sheffield_Attercliffe
1891/12/09
1851-1899

Gun 6 inches, B.L. projectiles 3 Holtzer forged steel 100lbs. and 2 Palliser chilled cast iron, 98lbs. Velocity 1976 f.s., energy, 2723 f.t.

These were the first nickel steel armour plates tested in Great Britain.

Image from Cyclops Steel and Iron Works, Sheffield, England c. 1900 (Sheffield Local Studies Library 338.4 SF)

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