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Diagram of British BL or QF 6 inch Shrapnel shell Mk IX, for gun or howitzer, 1909. Land or Naval use.
Length : 18.582 inches, diameter : 5.97 inches, weight filled & fuzed 100 lb 8 oz.
Has 1 inch G.S. fuze socket.
Described as "Composite socket type".
Body is of cast steel. Central tube is of brass with narrow orrifice.
Head has wood lining, body has paper lining.
A felt washer covers the bullets and prevents resin from working into fuze socket, where it might prevent ignition.
453 balls, 14/lb, 4:1 lead:antimony.
For use in the following guns :

Date Data correct as at 1 August 1914.
Source

Plate XXVIII, pages 181, 189 in "Treatise on Ammunition" 10th Edition, 1915.


Facsimile reprint by Imperial War Museum and Naval & Military press, 2003.
Author War Office, UK
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