10.5 cm SK L/40 naval gun

February 2013 10.5 cm SK L/40 Graf Goetzen Kanone.jpg 300 A gun salvaged from the light cruiser Königsberg 1905 2 and mounted on the gunboat SS Graf von Götzen on Lake Tanganyika German Empire Naval gun yes yes 1900—1945 German EmpireWeimar RepublicNazi GermanyOttoman Empire World War IWorld War II about 1898–1900 1555 kg lb 0 on 4.475 m ftin 0 on 105 x 656 mm Fixed QF ammunition 16 - 17.4 kg 0 on 105 mm in 0 on 15 RPM 690 m/s ft/s on 12200 m yd on at 30° Horizontal sliding-block Hydro-pneumatic -10° to +30° 360° The 10.5 cm SK L/40 (SK - Schnelladekanone (quick-loading cannon) L - Länge (with a 40-caliber long barrel) was a German naval gun used in World War I and World War II. Description The 10.5 cm SK L/40 gun weighed 1555 kg us, had an overall length of 4.475 m ftin on. It used a horizontal sliding-block breech design. Naval use Bremen-class Dresden-class Gazelle-class Iltis-class Königsberg-class SMS Cap Trafalgar Surviving examples thumb|Gun from SMS Königsberg, which served ashore in the East Africa Campaign in World War I, outside the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa. From Königsberg 1905 2: Nr. 369L is on display at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa A second is on display at Fort Jesus, Mombasa, Kenya A third is located on a traffic island in Jinja, Uganda From Emden 1908 2: A gun is on display at Hyde Park, Sydney, Australia A second is located at the Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre in Kuttabul naval base 6, the main naval base in Sydney A third is on display at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra From the Hilfskreuzer (auxiliary cruiser) Prinz Eitel Friedrich 1904 2 A gun is on display at Memorial Park, Cambridge, NY, United Stateshttp://navweaps.com/Weapons/WNGER_41-40_skc00_pics.htm Germany 10.5 cm/40 (4.1") SK L/40 Pictures 2018-11-29 https://web.archive.org/web/20160702013650/http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNGER_41-40_skc00_pics.htm 2016-07-02 dead See also List of naval guns British BL 4 inch naval gun Mk VIII - firing slightly lighter shell Notes 1http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNGER_41-40_skc00.php Sources Campbell John Naval Weapons of World War Two Conway Maritime Press London 2002 0-87021-459-4 Gander Terry Chamberlain, Peter Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of All Small Arms, Artillery and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939–1945 Doubleday New York 1979 0-385-15090-3 Hogg Ian V. Ian V. Hogg German Artillery of World War Two Stackpole Books Mechanicsville, PA 1997 2nd corrected 1-85367-480-X Rolf Rudi Der Atlantikwall: Bauten der deutschen Küstenbefestigungen 1940-1945 Biblio 1998 Osnabrück 3-7648-2469-7 Rolf Rudi A Dictionary on Modern Fortification: An Illustrated Lexicon on European Fortification in the Period 1800-1945 PRAK 2004 Middleburg, Netherlands External links SK L/40 at Navweaps.com Category:105 mm artillery Category:Naval guns of Germany