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Diagram of British Capped Armour-Piercing shell Mk V, for BL 9.2 inch naval and coast defence guns.
Length approximately 3 calibres (27.6 inches; precise length varied by contractor), diameter 9.165 inches, weight filled & fuzed 380 lbs.
Shell made of forged or cast steel, hardened for attacking armour, with mild steel cap.
Filled with approximately 20 lbs L.G. powder (gunpowder) contained in a cloth burster bag together with several 7-dram primers around the fuze.


Used with No. 15 Large base percussion fuze.
Date data correct as at 1 August 1914
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Plate XXII & pages 169, 171 in "Treatise on Ammunition" 10th Edition 1915.


Facsimile reprint by Imperial War Museum and Naval & military Press, 2003.
Author War Office, UK
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