18-cm Segment Shell

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-1295

A pointed 18-cm shell.

The shell is 44.8 cm long and has a 175 mm calibre. It has studs for a rifled barrel with three grooves. The nose has a bottleneck shape and a fuse hole filled with a plug with a rope. The convex bottom is secured with a lead ring.

This shell has not been found in British literature on ammunition.

J.H. Haakman, Handboek over de zee-artillerie voor konstabels en matrozen-kanonniers, 4 vols., Nieuwediep, 1871-72, vol. 3, p. 125, vol. 4, p. 124; J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1295; Atlas Artillerie Materieel Koninklijke Nederlandsche Marine, Amsterdam 1891, pl. XIX, figs. 28-29

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'W.G. Armstrong & Co, 18-cm Segment Shell, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1868', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245107