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23-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 23 cm shell, in a wooden crate. The shell is 51.8 cm long and has a caliber of 226 mm. It has two rings of bronze driving bands for a rifled barrel with six rifling grooves. The nose has a fuze hole. The shell is hollow: the bursting charge is surrounded by thirteen outer segment rings, in which nineteen inner segment rings, cemented together with lead. The inserted base is also secured with lead rings.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit line23-cm Segment Shell in a Wooden Box. 1868. W.G. Armstrong & Co. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
