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Diagram of British 15 pounder Mark VI Shrapnel shell, 1914.
For use with the following guns :-

Shell length = 9.075 inches, diameter = 2.98 inches, weight filled & fuzed = 14 lb.
The shell body was lined with brown paper to prevent the resin matrix from sticking to it.
The bullets are contained in a perforated tin cylinder which serves to limit the "angle of opening", or spread of the bullets after they are ejected from the shell. 230 bullets, 41/lb.
The head is attached by brass screws and steel twisting pins.
This shell has the old-style 1-inch G.S. fuze socket rather than the modern 2-inch fuze socket. The top of the central tube is threaded for a primer to be installed, which was necessary for use with G.S. fuzes to convey the flash from the fuze down the tube.
Shells were painted a lead colour (dirty light grey), instead of the usual black, to distinguish them from 12 pounder shrapnel shells, which were also 3-inch.
Date 1915. Facsimile reprint published by Imperial War Museum and Naval & Military Press, 2003.
Source Plate XXIII and Pages 175-176, 187 in "Treatise on Ammunition", 10th Edition, 1915.
Author War Office, UK.
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