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A early British base fuze ?
The marking B O indicates War service (office) since 1855, and the War Department until 1857
If you have any drawings or other information
Thank you in advance Cordialement Jean Paul
Herewith a couple of PDF extracts from a Treatise. The book is freely available to download through Google books. It covers some of the early fuzes very nicely.
John Bart is an expert on this period and hopefully he will have something to offer when he sees this thread.
The Board of Ordnance mark is very nice to see (as is the fuze!) . As you say it dates it to before 1855.
Jean Paul,
It is indeed a Moorsom percussion fuze. Invented by Cdr. Moorsom,RN. it was an early attempt to put a percussion fuze in a spherical shell. Norman's post shows it in a smoothbore shell. A beautiful fuze, it was obsolete soon after service use due to premature detonations. Where did you locate this one?
Since the end capis missing and one of the cover plates are rotated out of normal position this fuze may have fired. I t appears to have come out of the ocean.
Best Regards,
John
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