18-cm Canister Shot

Royal Laboratory, 1868

18 cm kartets, zwart geverfd. Het is een cylindervormige bus met platte boven- en onderkant, op de bovenkant twee hengsels.

  • Artwork typegrapeshot
  • Object numberNG-MC-1293
  • Dimensionslength 28.5 cm x diameter 17.5 cm
  • Physical characteristicsiron, coal and paint

Identification

  • Title(s)

    18-cm Canister Shot

  • Object type

  • Object number

    NG-MC-1293

  • Description

    18 cm kartets, zwart geverfd. Het is een cylindervormige bus met platte boven- en onderkant, op de bovenkant twee hengsels.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    label, on the side: ‘1293’ former inventory label

  • Part of catalogue

Creation

  • Creation

    manufacturer: Royal Laboratory, Woolwich

  • Dating

    1868

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    iron, coal and paint

  • Dimensions

    length 28.5 cm x diameter 17.5 cm

Explanatory note

  • Dit soort kartetsen werd gebruikt voor 18 cm voor- en achterladers.

This work is about

  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    ...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

Documentation

    • Atlas Artillerie Materieel Koninklijke Nederlandsche Marine, Amsterdam 1891, pl. XIX, afb. 20, 21.
    • Charles Orde Brown, Ammunition, A Descriptive Treatise on the Different Projectiles, Charches, Fuzes, Rockets etc at Present in Use for Land and Sea Service and on Other War Stores Manufactured in the Royal Laboratory, 2 vols., London, no date [1870], dl. 2, p. 91-92.
    • J.H. Haakman, Handboek over de zee-artillerie voor konstabels en matrozen-kanonniers, Nieuwendiep 1871-1872, dl. 2, p. 121-123.

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Royal Laboratory

18-cm Canister Shot

Woolwich, 1868

Inscriptions

  • label, on the side:1293 former inventory label

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-1293

Entry

An 18-cm canister shot, painted black.

A cylinder with a flat top and bottom and two handles on top.

These canister shots were used with 18-cm muzzle-loading and breech-loading ordnance.

Literature

C. Orde Brown, Ammunition: A Descriptive Treatise on the Different Projectiles, Charges, Fuzes, Rockets etc. at Present in Use for Land and Sea Service and on Other War Stores Manufactured in the Royal Laboratory, 2 vols., London (1870), vol. 2, pp. 91-92; J.H. Haakman, Handboek over de zee-artillerie voor konstabels en matrozen-kanonniers, 4 vols., Nieuwediep, 1871-72, vol. 2, pp. 121-23; J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1293; Atlas Artillerie Materieel Koninklijke Nederlandsche Marine, Amsterdam 1891, pl. XIX, figs. 20-21

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Royal Laboratory, 18-cm Canister Shot, Woolwich, 1868', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20054222

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