37mm projectile ID

[alpvogt]

Does anyone knows this origin of this 37mm projectile, a diagram of this projectile would be great too.

Greetings

Alpvogt

 

[Slick]

Looks Japanese. That's all I've got. ogreve?

Update: Yea, what HAZORD says. This is what I was guessing from.

 

[HAZORD]

Looks like a fired French Hotchkiss.

 

[Yodamaster]

37 mm

Hi Alpvogt,

without dimensions, it's all i've found whose seems to be your 37 mm.

The french 37 mm for Hotchkiss revolving-canon.

Yoda

 

[alpvogt]

Could this cross-section be right one...?

 

[Yodamaster]

37 mm

It's very possible !

Yoda

 

[alpvogt]

I just got the x-ray picture....

 

[Gspragge]

Can you remove the base

Looking carefully at the base can you see a very small Anchor mark. The image shows the French Navy fuze not the Hotchkiss. I think you have the 37mm Hotchkiss Light penetrating projectile But the French Navy Mle 1886 version. A Hotchkiss made projectile but Fuzed by the French Navy. This is the same fuze found in the French Navy Mle 1888 & 1892 projectiles. The numbers on the projectile should match those on the base, there seems to be additional markings but I can't make them out.

 

[Gspragge]

images

Can you post more images of the base markings. If you can get the base off and unscrew the fuze it will have date markings on it and that would be interesting to see what they are.

 

[Gspragge]

Base fuzes

Hotchkiss and 1886 fuze type for comparison