Object data
iron, bronze, brass, lead and wood
length 51 cm × diameter 17.6 cm × weight 50.2 kg
Royal Laboratory
18-cm Shell
Woolwich, 1866
Inscriptions
- label, on the side: 1294 former inventory label
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1294
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
A pointed 18-cm shell.
The shell is 51 cm long and has a 176 mm calibre. The shell has studs for a rifled barrel with three grooves and a fuse hole. It has three shallow indentations in the top for the ammunition crane.
This shell is a Common shell MK I 7-inch RML, which was produced from 1866 onwards. It was for muzzle-loading rifled ordnance, but probably never used by the Dutch Navy.
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.; J.H. Haakman, Handboek over de zee-artillerie voor konstabels en matrozen-kanonniers, 4 vols., Nieuwediep, 1871-72, vol. 3, p. 130, vol. 4, pp. 116 ff.; J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1294
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Royal Laboratory, 18-cm Shell, Woolwich, 1866', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20054223
(accessed 24 December 2025 00:09:52).