Object data
iron
height 18.1 cm × diameter 6 cm
Joseph Whitworth
Six-Pounder Shot
Manchester, 1861
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1115
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Whitworth shot for a 6-pounder gun.
It is made of solid iron and has an oblong, almost oval form with a flat base and a round tip, six oblique oval indentations have been made in the sides. These are twisted to give the bullet its rotation in a barrel with a hexagonally rifled bore.
Literature
H. Douglas, A Treatise on Naval Gunnery, s.l. 1860 (5th rev. ed.), pp. 214 ff.; J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1115; W.G.M.H. Canisius, ‘De ontwikkeling van scheepsgeschut bij de Nederlandse marine in 1780-1880’, Erfgoed van Industrie en Techniek 2 (1993), no. 2, pp. 43-62, no. 3, pp. 80-87, p. 80
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Joseph Whitworth, Six-Pounder Shot, Manchester, 1861', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244928
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