Object data
wood, brass, iron, leather and velours
height 15.8 cm × width 17 cm × depth 14.3 cm
Royal Laboratory
Box with Seven Shell Fuses
Woolwich, 1867 - 1872
Inscriptions
- inscription, on each fuse: BOC; PATENT
Provenance
...; Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, 1872;1 transferred to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1267
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Small box with seven fuses for pointed shells.
Three of the fuses are double, one whole, one half of a bisected fuse to show the interior. The three pairs represent the field service time fuse (Armstrong fuse type E), the field service time and concussion fuse (Armstrong fuse type F) and the Armstrong Plain field service concussion fuse. The seventh fuse, the one without a thread, is the field service concussion fuse (Armstrong fuse type C), which could be used in combination with type E.
The box was added to the Navy Model Room by the Inspector of Artillery in 1872.2 These fuses were used for shells and segment shells of 7 and 9 inches. In 1874 trials were performed on the ship Vulkaan.3
Scale 1:1.
Literature
R.A. Wray, Changes of Pattern and Modifications in the Armstrong Time and F.S. Percussion Fuzes Since Their Introduction in 1860, Woolwich 1869; C. Orde Brown, Ammunition: A Descriptive Treatise on the Different Projectiles, Charges, Fuzes, Rockets etc. at Present in Use for Land and Sea Service and on Other War Stores Manufactured in the Royal Laboratory, 2 vols., London (1870), vol. 2, pp. 158 ff.; J.H. Haakman, Handboek over de zee-artillerie voor konstabels en matrozen-kanonniers, 4 vols., Nieuwediep, 1871-72, vol. 3, pp. 157 ff., pl. I, figs. 1-4; H. Romberg, Rechèrches theoriques et pratiques sur les fusées pour projectiles creux. Description des fusées en usage. Étude sur les fusées a double effet, Brussels 1871, pp. 158, 188, 227, pl. II, fig. 16, pl. III, figs. 12-13, pl. V, fig. 2; J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1267; W.G.M.H. Canisius, ‘De ontwikkeling van scheepsgeschut bij de Nederlandse marine in 1780-1880’, Erfgoed van Industrie en Techniek 2 (1993), no. 2, pp. 43-62, no. 3, pp. 80-87, p. 60
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Royal Laboratory, Box with Seven Shell Fuses, Woolwich, 1867 - 1872', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245079
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