File:Brazilian battleship Minas Geraes firing a broadside.jpg

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Description	Português: Encouraçado Minas Geraes disparo de canhões de 12 polegadas. English: Caption from Scientific American: "During the gun trial of "Minas Geraes" ten 12-inch guns were trained on the broadside and discharged simultaneously. The combined energy of the projectiles amounted to 500,000 foot-tons, or sufficient to lift the ship bodily 26 feet into the air. ... The Greatest Broadside ever fired from a battleship."
Date	1909, during Minas Geraes' sea trials.
Source	"The Brazilian Battleship "Minas Geraes"". Scientific American (New York: Munn & Co., Inc.) 102: 240. 19 March 1910. It was also published in Engineering, January 1910. The older version, in the history, is from Poder Naval Online here.
Author	Português: Serviço de Divulgação da Marinha do Brasil English: Brazilian Navy
Other versions	File:Brazilian battleship Minas Geraes firing a broadside 2.jpg: copy held by the UK's Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	23:12, 25 June 2011	1,857 × 1,332 (1.4 MB)	Quibik	Re-did the cleanup. Removed the coherent noise using FFT. Rotated & cropped. Adjusted levels. Removed some noise.
	14:35, 28 April 2009	1,842 × 1,298 (462 KB)	Bellhalla	deskew and recrop; adjust contrast; refine jpeg quality level
	14:46, 27 April 2009	1,866 × 1,332 (1.69 MB)	The ed17	uploaded better version.
	17:16, 4 May 2008	528 × 362 (122 KB)	HTPF	== Information == {{Information\| \|Description = Encouraçado Minas Geraes disparo de canhões de 12 polegadas - Naval ship of Brazil. \|Source = photo taken by Brazillian Navy. http://www.naval.com.br/NGB/M/M064/M064-f08.jpeg