Stokes mortar [SEP] designer
Stokes mortar
The Stokes mortar was a British trench mortar designed by Sir Wilfred Stokes KBE that was issued to the British and U.S. armies, as well as the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps, during the later half of the First World War. The 3-inch trench mortar is a smooth-bore, muzzle-loading weapon for high angles of fire. Although it is called a 3-inch mortar, its bore is actually 3.2 inches or 81 mm.
Design.
Frederick Wilfred Scott Stokes – who later became Sir Wilfred Stokes KBE
was badly needed. The Stokes trench mortar was developed for precisely this purpose.
Weapons Mortars Stokes mortar.
The Stokes Mortar was a simple weapon, that was easy to manufacture and use. The weapon was broken down into three sections for easy transport, the barrel (tube) which weighed 43 pounds, the base plate weighed and bipod weighed for a total of . The Stokes Mortar could fire as many as 25 bombs per minute and had a maximum range of . The first recorded use of Stokes mortars by the British was