Hotchkiss Machine Gun Serial numbers
Publié : sam. avr. 28, 2018 9:16 pm
Good evening, New here, but hoping that someone will be able to help me out.
I am trying to identify a World War 1 shipwreck I have been diving for a while near Lands End in Cornwall, England. The wreck is full of 75mm live shells, with the brass shell cases attached. All of these are marked 1916. Recently I found some gun parts which have been identified as a Hotchkiss machine gun.
I am hoping that someone here will have knowledge of their serial numbers and possibly be able to put a date to when it was manufactured. There are a lot of first world war wrecks off Cornwall and if I knew roughly when the gun was made I will be able to rule a few out as a possibility.
I can also post some pictures of the shell bases if it would help?
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I am trying to identify a World War 1 shipwreck I have been diving for a while near Lands End in Cornwall, England. The wreck is full of 75mm live shells, with the brass shell cases attached. All of these are marked 1916. Recently I found some gun parts which have been identified as a Hotchkiss machine gun.
I am hoping that someone here will have knowledge of their serial numbers and possibly be able to put a date to when it was manufactured. There are a lot of first world war wrecks off Cornwall and if I knew roughly when the gun was made I will be able to rule a few out as a possibility.
I can also post some pictures of the shell bases if it would help?
[URL=http://s1380.photobucket.com/user/quant ... m.jpg.html]
