"Bomball" on Skegness Beach
A Bomball Washed up on Skegness Beach
Source: Skegness, Mablethorpe and Alford News 1918
This afternoon a “bomball” measuring about 3 feet 6 inches in diameter, which presumably contained something stronger that wind, was washed ashore at half ebb tide opposite the Helter Skelter. A number of inhabitants walked down to view it but kept at the respectable distance of about 300 yards.
Though the military took posession at once they did not indulge in a game of football.
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The “bomball” was a “bouncing” bomb, designed to be dropped, and on impact it would roll and bounce into a target. The bomb was covered in a thick rubber inner tube. They didn’t last very long as a weapon for obvious reasons, they didn’t detonate very reliably. – Thanks to leavin#1 on Yahoo Answers for providing this extra information.
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