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The British formed the '''Shell Committee''' to examine issues of their projectiles failing to penetrate armour or to properly explode after doing so.  It had perhaps been formed upon the findings of an earlier committee to study the types of projectiles the Fleet was using and to study the proportion each should have in continued production.<ref>Farquhar Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}}  Book 2.  f. 446.</ref>

==Presidents==
<div name=fredbot:officePres otitle="President of the Shell Committee" nat="UK">
{{Tenure|rank={{ViceRN}}|name=Arthur Henry Limpus|nick=Arthur H. Limpus|appt=5 March, 1917<ref>Limpus Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 137.</ref>|end=26 June, 1917<ref>Limpus Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 137.</ref>|precBy=New Committee}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Frederic Charles Dreyer|nick=Frederic C. Dreyer|appt=26 June, 1917<ref>''Reports of the Shell Committee.  1917 and 1918''.  p. 14.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Henry Ralph Crooke|nick=Henry R. Crooke|appt=1 October, 1918<ref>Crooke Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/89/136.|D8115661}} f. 36.</ref>}}
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==See Also==
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* [[British Shell in the Great War]]
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