2008年4月2日 · Lyddite, as stated, was the covert cover name for the explosive, named after Lydd in Kent where the explosive was first tested.There must have been a British Army testing centre closeby in the late 19th century.

2009年4月30日 · Lyddite was the Britsh name for picric acid, a high explosive that was actually more powerful than TNT but had drawbacks as already pointed out. Other countries gave in other names - 'melinite', 'pertite', 'shimosé'. There were so-called 'universal shell' that combined both shrapnel and HE, and pre war Ehrhardt in Germany had produced a design.

2024年2月21日 · The 9.2 inch naval gun fired a massive 380 lb shell with the common shell being filled with about 30 lb of Lyddite. When that detonated, you had 350 lb of cast steel broken into sizeable pieces and ejected at supersonic speeds.

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2008年5月22日 · Hello Everyone, In researching the battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands in 1914, I have been looking into the comparative gunnery of the Royal Naval ships and the German Imperial Naval ships. I have explored the Royal Navy's use of lyddite in some of their HE and APC shells I recently came...

2012年9月17日 · All lyddite and HE shells (except as below) Yellow QF HE shells made up with reduced propellant charge cartridges. White. Note 1. BL 15-Pdr shrapnel shells. QF 13-Pdr shrapnel Mk II & III shells. QF 18-Pdr Shrapnel Mk II & III shells. QF 12-Pdr (8 cwt) and 12-Pdr (12 cwt) 2 all except lyddite shells “Lead colour” Note 3

2006年10月13日 · 4.5" Lyddite filled how. shell = 9.997 m/joules at detonation (calculated with m/joules per kg for Lyddite as 3.391) 9.2" Lyddite filled how. shell = 71.651 m/joules. 12" Lyddite filled how. shell = 199.293 m/joules. 15" Lyddite filled how. shell = 395.713 m/joules. Any advance on these figures much appreciated.

2020年7月31日 · I wonder if some officers considered the term "whizz-bang" too informal for use in official records and used "LHV" instead. It does seem overwhelmingly likely that "HV" stands for "high velocity", but I cannot believe that the "L" stands for "Lyddite" which, as someone pointed out above, has no connection whatsoever to the velocity.

2014年7月23日 · Old Sweats; 531 Location: Buckinghamshire, originally from Northwich in Cheshire Interests: Great War - 8th East Lancs, 112th Brigade, 37th Division.

2013年12月12日 · My Great grandfathers father was a farm Labourer but in the war years he worked at Munitions factory Banbury which was known as NFF No.9 Banbury, with the use of lyddite and Picric acid, lyddite declined by September 1917 as the army switched to TNT, sections of the factory were converted to filling naval mines and shrapnel shells and, early in ...