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18-cm Segment Shell in a Wooden Box
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
A half longitudinal cut-pointed 18 cm shell, in a wooden crate. The shell is 45 cm long and has a caliber of 176 mm. It has two rings of bronze driving bands for a rifled barrel with three rifling grooves. The nose has the shape of a bottle neck with a fuze hole. The shell is hollow: the bursting charge is surrounded by twelve iron segment rings, which are cemented together with lead. The inserted base is also secured with lead rings.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit line18-cm Segment Shell in a Wooden Box. 1868. W.G. Armstrong & Co. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
