12-inch B.L. projectiles

[sgdbdr]

Hi,

"Handbook for the 12 inch B.L. 47 ton Gun" (1891) is the only book I have about this caliber. Unfortunately, plates VIII, IX, X about projectiles are missing. Projectiles listed in the book are : 12-inch B.L. Common Cast Iron Mark II 12-inch B.L. Common Cast Steel Mark V 12-inch B.L. Shrapnel Cast Iron Mark II 12-inch B.L. Shrapnel Forged Steel Mark III 12-inch B.L. Shot Palliser Mark I 12-inch B.L. Shot Palliser Mark II 12-inch B.L. Shot Armour Piercing Forged Steel Mark I Does someone has the complete book and could show those plates, or other digitized sources ? I found a drawing of a 12-inch shrapnel in the "Ammunition pocket book" from 1926, but there is no indication of the measurements and the mark. Thanks by advance S.

 

[MINENAZ16]

Hello,
you can find lot of informations in all free Treatise on Ammunitions (1915, 1905, etc)

 

[sgdbdr]

Thanks MINENAZ16.
I maybe wrong but those drawings are not B.L. shells, but to be used in the 12-in R.M.L. Gun of 35 tons Mark I
Not many 12 inch drawings in the treatises of ammunition except the 12 inch B.L. Commpon Pointed with Cap Heavy Mark VII A and the 12 inch Shrapnel Heavy Mark II A in the 1915 edition.

Regards,

S.

 

[MINENAZ16]

yes, RML 35T

 

[Bonnex]

sgdbdr,

Herewith the three missing plates from the 1891 Handbook on the 12-inch BL 47 Ton with apologies for the quality: