TIL the longest range gunnery hit in naval combat is 26,000 yards, shared between HMS Warspite against Giulio Cesare in July 1940 and Scharnhorst against HMS Glorious a month before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Warspite_(03)#Mediterranean_(1940%E2%80%931941)
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