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23-cm Palliser Shot
Royal Laboratory, 1868
23 cm glasharde puntkogel met drie ringen nokken voor een getrokken loop met zes trekkende velden en een platte bodem met scherpe rand. Bij de neus zes ondiepe gaten voor de munitiekraan. Dit is een Palliser shot MK I 9 inch RML.
- Artwork typebullet (ammunition)
- Object numberNG-MC-1289
- Dimensionslength 45.5 cm x diameter 22.6 cm x weight 113 kg
- Physical characteristicsiron, bronze and brass
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23-cm Palliser Shot
Object type
Object number
NG-MC-1289
Description
23 cm glasharde puntkogel met drie ringen nokken voor een getrokken loop met zes trekkende velden en een platte bodem met scherpe rand. Bij de neus zes ondiepe gaten voor de munitiekraan. Dit is een Palliser shot MK I 9 inch RML.
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Creation
Creation
manufacturer: Royal Laboratory, Woolwich
Dating
1868
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Physical description
iron, bronze and brass
Dimensions
length 45.5 cm x diameter 22.6 cm x weight 113 kg
Explanatory note
De Palliser shot MK I 9 inch RML werden van 1867 geproduceerd. Palliser kogels waren gehard door een koelingsproces (zgn. 'glasharde kogels'). Kogels waren projectielen zonder spinglading: de lichtere kalibers waren massief, de zwaardere werden hol gemaakt vanwege problemen bij het gieten en afkoelen. Zij waren bedoeld voor getrokken voorlaadgeschut. De Nederlandse Marine gebruikte vanaf 1867 23 cm Armstrong geschut.
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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. 9.
- 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. 87 ff.
- H. Tutein Nolthenius, Artillerie cursus 1878/1879, MS 1878-1879, KIM PTZ 9, dl. 1.
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Royal Laboratory
23-cm Palliser Shot
Woolwich, 1868
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1289
Entry
A 23-cm pointed Palliser shot with studs for a rifled barrel with six grooves and a flat bottom with a sharp edge. Near the top six shallow indentations have been made for the ammunition crane.
This is the Palliser shot MK I 9-inch RML, which was made from 1867 onwards. Palliser projectiles were hardened by means of a chilling process (so-called ‘chilled projectiles’). Shot were simple projectiles, carrying no powder charge: the smaller calibres were solid, but the larger calibres, such as the 9-inch, were hollow because of problems with casting and cooling. They were used for muzzle-loading rifled ordnance. The Dutch Navy used 23-cm Armstrong ordnance from 1867 onwards.
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. 87 ff.; H. Tutein Nolthenius, Artillerie cursus 1878/1879, s.l. 1878-79, manuscript in KIM PTV 9 (1-2), part 1; J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1289; Atlas Artillerie Materieel Koninklijke Nederlandsche Marine, Amsterdam 1891, pl. XIX, fig. 9
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Royal Laboratory, 23-cm Palliser 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/20054219
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