John Breed, Diary and Training diary, item 140

• April 1, 2017 21:58:26 Cheryl Ellsworth

  as to bring the bursts to the proper height

  
  

  Sweeping
  

       When a target wider than a Battery is engaged

  it may be divided into portions which are engaged successively

  or else the fire may be spread over the whole target

  The target is divided into two parts for the two sections

  and each of these again divided for each gun, Each gun

  then fires alternately at right traverse, centre, left traverse,

  and so on, so as to cover the target allotted to it. In practice

  sweeping is not usually carried out with minute accuracy

  as stated, but the flank guns are given an amount of outward

  deflection estimated sufficient to cover the target, and

  the sweep of the guns is ordered in round numbers, as

  one degree right and left.

  Sweeping is also used for the same purpose as Searching

  when the exact direction of a concealed target cannot be

  determined

  
  

  Concentration and Distribution
  

       The order is "Concentrate 10 minutes on No 1" or

  Distribute 10 minutes from No '. In the burst case No 2

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