Shell base

Base of shell on piece of broken deck which wrecked the sick bay of HMS Lion at the Battle of Jutland.

Object Details

ID: KTP1234
Collection: Weapons
Type: Shell base
Display location: Display - Forgotten Fighters
Creator: Unknown
Events: World War I: Battle of Jutland, 1916; World War I, 1914-1918
Vessels: Lion (1910)
Date made: 1916
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Earl Beatty Collection. Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, 1983.
Measurements: Overall: 75 mm x 17.5 kg; Diameter: 210 mm
Parts: Shell base
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