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Diagram of Shrapnel Shell (Light) Mk I, for British BL 6 inch 30 cwt howitzer.
Length 19.62 inches, diameter 5.97 inches, weight filled and fuzed 100 lbs.
Contains 905 bullets, 27/lb.
A wooden cylinder surrounds the central tube to reduce total weight to 100 lbs without reducing length of shell.


Threaded for 2-inch gauge fuze.
Date data correct as at 1 August 1914
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Based on Figure 39, Page 179, Page 178, 190 in "Treatise on Ammunition" 10th Edition, 1915.
Facsimile reprint by Imperial War Museum and Naval & Military Press, 2003.


Orientation changed from vertical to horizontal to suit display on computer screens, otherwise unaltered.
Author War Office, UK
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