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HMS Edinburgh was used as a target for experimental firing in 1908. She was fitted with modern armour plates fully supported, for testing hits at oblique angles with filled armour piercing (A.P.) shell as supplied for war use. As a result of these trials the Controller of the Navy (Jellicoe) instructed the Director of Naval Ordnance in October 1908 to produce designs for an A.P. 12-in shell and above that would pierce thick armour at oblique impact in a fit state for bursting. Jellicoe then hoisted his flag as C.O. of the Atlantic fleet, but due to technical blunders in his absence this instruction was not carried out. This was to have profound impact on the effectiveness of British shells at Jutland.[Oscar Parkes: British Battleships]
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