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English: Diagram of Mk III shrapnel shell for British RML 16 pounder field gun.

Contained lead-antimony balls : 28 balls of 18 / lb (25.2 grams) and 56 balls of 84 / lb (5.4 grams). Contained 1½ oz gunpowder charge in base to blow bullets out of shell.

Weight of shell filled but not fuzed : 17 lb 14½ oz (8.124 kg).
Date circa 1877
date QS:P,+1877-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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"Treatise on Ammunition" 1877, page 244.


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