Object data
iron, bronze, brass, lead and wood
length 67.4 cm × diameter 22.6 cm × weight 104.4 kg
Royal Laboratory
23-cm Shell
Woolwich, 1866
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1290
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
A pointed 23-cm shell, cut lengthwise.
The shell is 67.4 cm long and has a 226 mm calibre. It has studs for a rifled barrel with six grooves and a fuse hole in the nose, filled with a plug; around the nose it has a groove for the ammunition crane.
This shell is a Common shell MK I 9-inch RML, which was produced from May 1866 onwards. It was used for muzzle-loading rifled ordnance. The Dutch Navy used 23-cm Armstrong ordnance from 1867 onwards.
Literature
C. Orde Brown, Ammunition: A Descriptive Treatise on the Different Projectiles, Charges, Fuzes, Rockets etc. at Present in Use for Land and Sea Service and on Other War Stores Manufactured in the Royal Laboratory, 2 vols., London (1870), vol. 2, pp. 66 ff., p. 71; J.H. Haakman, Handboek over de zee-artillerie voor konstabels en matrozen-kanonniers, 4 vols., Nieuwediep, 1871-72, vol. 2, pp. 116 ff., vol. 3, pp. 125, 130; J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1290; Atlas Artillerie Materieel Koninklijke Nederlandsche Marine, Amsterdam 1891, pl. XIX, figs. 1-2, 10-12
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Royal Laboratory, 23-cm Shell, Woolwich, 1866', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245102
(accessed 17 November 2024 17:00:03).