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Diagram showing British QF 3 pounder Common Lyddite Shell Mark V. N.T. (Night Tracer), 1914. Intended for Naval service.
Length 6.59 inches, diameter 1.842 inches. Weight filled & fuzed 3 1/2 lb.
Bursting charge 4 oz 4 drams Lyddite. Exploder 3 drams Trotyl (TNT) in a vulcanised cashmere bag within an asbestos paper cylinder between fuze and Lyddite, to amplify the fuze's spark and explode the Lyddite.
Fuze D.A. Impact No. 19A.
The base is thickened and threaded for an external Night Tracer, not shown fitted.
For use in the following guns :-

  • QF 3 pounder Hotchkiss with Charge of 7 oz 4 drams Cordite M.D. size 4 1/2, with Percussion Primer No. 2 Mk III or IV.
  • QF 3 pounder Vickers with Charge 13 oz 6 drams Cordite M.D. size 8, with Percussion Primer No. 2 Mk IV.
Date 1915. Facsimile reprint by Imperial War Museum and Naval & Military Press, 2003.
Source Plate XXXVIII, Pages 209, 213, 402 - 405, 423, 426
Author War Office, UK
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