The artillery ammunition of Odrin

 

 

 

gun

Available

Required in wartime

per gun

Total

shells

shrapnel

total

shells

shrapnel

shells

shrapnel

total

210mm L/6.4 mortars

6

488

60

548

500

3,000

3,000

150mm L/26 guns

78

26,006

16,648

42,654

100

600

5,400

57,600

63,000

150mm L/14 howitzers

12

400

300

150mm L/6.4 mortars

19

1,958

168

2,126

700

13,300

13,300

120mm L/24 guns

36

19,206

4,478

23,734

100

600

3,600

21,000

25,200

105mm L/35 guns

12

2,593

7,268

9,861

100

700

1,200

8,400

9,600

87mm L/24 field guns

176

30,124

22,099

52,223

100

600

17,600

105,600

123,200

75mm L/27 field guns

12

4,000

3,504

7,504

100

600

1,200

7,200

8,400

 

Ammunition available on 23 September 1912 according TÜRK SİLAHLI KUVVETLERİ TARİHİ : Balkan Harbi, Osmanli Devri (1912-1913). II cilt 1. kısım Edirne Kalesi Etrafındaki Muharebeler…, p. 477.

Field guns, 105mm L/35 QF guns and 150mm L/14 QF howitzers had their supply of ammunition according with their wartime establishment, except for part of the howitzers shells, which during the transport had been left at Sirkeci, the terminating point of the Orient Express, near Istanbul.