Guns To Fight Aircraft.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 18, 1912:
Wonderful Weapons to Be Used on New British Armored Ships.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Sept. 17.— The four British armored ships to be begun this year will be fitted not only with overhead armor for protection against aerial attack, but also with guns of high elevation for attacking aircraft.
    The gun is a combination of an anti-torpedo craft and anti-aircraft weapon. When required for work against surface vessels it has a range of 13,000 yards, with 31-pound shells. It can be elevated nearly 80 degrees, at which angle its effective height range is 9,000 yards. At a distance of four and a half miles it can send a shell to a height of 13,000 feet.
    For use against aircraft a new type of shrapnel shell is used.