Object data
iron, bronze, brass and lead
length 50.5 cm × diameter 22.5 cm × weight 108.8 kg
Royal Laboratory
23-cm Palliser Shell
Woolwich, c. 1867
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1291
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
A pointed 23-cm shell.
The shell is 50.5 cm long and has a 225 mm calibre. The shell has studs for a rifled barrel with six grooves. In the bottom it has a section made of a softer metal with a filling hole.
This shell is a Palliser shell MK I 9-inch RML, which was produced from January 1867 onwards. Palliser shells were hardened by a chilling process (so-called ‘chilled projectiles’). They were 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. 82 ff., p. 86; J.H. Haakman, Handboek over de zee-artillerie voor konstabels en matrozen-kanonniers, 4 vols., Nieuwediep, 1871-72, vol. 2, pp. 116-18, vol. 3, pp. 125, 130; H. Tutein Nolthenius, Artillerie cursus 1878/1879, s.l. 1878-79, manuscript in KIM PTV 9 (1-2), part 1; J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1291; Atlas Artillerie Materieel Koninklijke Nederlandsche Marine, Amsterdam 1891, pl. XIX, figs. 5-6
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Royal Laboratory, 23-cm Palliser Shell, Woolwich, c. 1867', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245103
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