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2 Pr case for Depth Charge Launching
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I have seen the same case in a navy museum in Denmark, and I have a bunch of other weird British cases with cuts and so on like this one.....Would love to have some documents on the subject!
Gordon,I have never seen one like that,and I have a fair few cases! What is the headstamp? All the 9.5DCT cases I have are 158mm,other than that I have the short cases with the tapered mouth, which were fired from the top with the primer hole being blanked off,cheers tig
Just found this reference to a D.C.T.http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/threads/74079-2-Pr-Blank. I think the one from that post has been cut just below the cutouts, I think a measurement to the bottom of your cutouts will show this.
I also find that the Hedgehog is a spigot mortar style which has an integral propelling charge which uses a small/shorter cart. Some are of a short two piece design cartridge. Half stays with the depth charge and the other half expels during firing/launching.
For some reason this seems a small cartridge for a 9.5 Thornycroft depth charge projector but it is the only 9.5 inch afaik. I also read that there was a breech adapter used to facilitate a smaller cartridge used to fire a lightweight practice depth charge on some models of expansion chamber style mortars such as the Thornycroft and Mark 5 K-guns etc. The normal propelling carts for these tend to be 3 inch carts and modified 77 mm and 3" 20 cwt Mk V cases.
There is an Ord Data 5318 and FTP 223 which details Impulse Cartridges for the Mark 6 and British Mk 7 projectors but I can not find this anywhere. This is all I can come up with for now. Maybe someone else can add a little more light on the subject.
SHAKY
I also find that the Hedgehog is a spigot mortar style which has an integral propelling charge which uses a small/shorter cart. Some are of a short two piece design cartridge. Half stays with the depth charge and the other half expels during firing/launching.
For some reason this seems a small cartridge for a 9.5 Thornycroft depth charge projector but it is the only 9.5 inch afaik. I also read that there was a breech adapter used to facilitate a smaller cartridge used to fire a lightweight practice depth charge on some models of expansion chamber style mortars such as the Thornycroft and Mark 5 K-guns etc. The normal propelling carts for these tend to be 3 inch carts and modified 77 mm and 3" 20 cwt Mk V cases.
There is an Ord Data 5318 and FTP 223 which details Impulse Cartridges for the Mark 6 and British Mk 7 projectors but I can not find this anywhere. This is all I can come up with for now. Maybe someone else can add a little more light on the subject.
SHAKY
Hi all,Acquired the above cases a short while ago at a Militaria fair. If I had not previously seen this thread I would have ignored them as some-one's idea of trench art. Both clearly marked as being 9.5 in DCT, and both have the No.12 primer with the magazine. Two interesting items for the collection!
Roger.