The surgical & medical history of the naval war between Japan & China : during 1894-95 / translated from the original Japanese report, under the direction of Baron Saneyoshi by S. Suzuki.

Saneyoshi, Yasuzumi, Baron.

Date:: 1901

Credit: The surgical & medical history of the naval war between Japan & China : during 1894-95 / translated from the original Japanese report, under the direction of Baron Saneyoshi by S. Suzuki. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$directions caused heavy damage to the port waist deck and several places on the side; and at the same time produced an explosion of «;un powder in the bams helon'’ing to No. 4 gun. At this time, tiiree men belonging to No. 4 port battery on the waist deck, were killed by the fragments, a.nd one man by the explosion of the [)owder; Lieutenant M. Takasliima, commanding the port battery, and two men ,were also injured bv the fragments or w(joden splinters. '2.—About 1.17 p.m., a 12 can. shell dashed into the upper deck, (about 2.5) meters above the sea-level) through an o[)en port at the lower end of the starboard cutter davit at the stern, damaeinff the planks around the sea ])ort. Jt tlien left the shij) by a stern port hole without exploding; but during its j)assage it knocked off the head of a. man of No. 5) gun. d.—.\t about 1.1(S [).m., a 15 c.m. shell smashed the aft and upper part of the stern starboard port, then turiicd obliquely astern and left tlie ship, makiiig a hole through the ])ort side of the stern where the life buoys were. At the time, four men in the battery of No. 5) gun (stern gun) Avere wounded by broken wooden s[)linters. 4. —About 1.20 p.m. a 12 c.m. shell pierced through the ship’s side behind No. 7 gun j)ort in the middle of the starboai'd, crushing the wooden and iron planks as well as the iron-ring (ff the elevator of No. 7 gun ; and the shell, not bursting, glanced off’ over the port netting, wounding three men with the wooden splinters and, one with a broken piece of iron. 5. —.\boiit 1.25 [).m.. a 17 c.m. shell ex[)loding on the sea near the starboard, vsome of its fragments rebounded cutting off the mast- head-line and striking against the main mast-head, some fragments of the shell and the iron wall of the mast fell throuofh the hollow of the mast into the engine room. No one was injured. b. —.‘\bout 1.25 p.m., a 47 m.m. shell entered the lower deck by$