Image: BL 5 inch shrapnel shells Mk III & Mk IV diagrams

Description: Diagrams of Mk III (left) and Mk IV (right) shrapnel shells for British BL 5 inch gun. Mk III : Shell walls of forged steel, bursting charge is in base. Shell does not break up on bursting. On bursting the bullets are ejected through the nose of the shell. Contains 236 lead-antimony balls, 14/pound. Mk IV : Bursting charge is contained in a cylindrical tin chamber in the shell nose, and hence there is no central tube. On bursting the bullets are ejected through the base of the shell. Contains 400 lead-antimony balls, 16/pound.
Title: BL 5 inch shrapnel shells Mk III & Mk IV diagrams
Credit: "Treatise on Ammunition" 4th Edition 1887, Page 217.
Author: War Office, UK
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