15 cm SK L/45

15 cm SK L/45 German gun from SMS Bremse - geograph.org.uk - 118942.jpg 300 Gun salvaged from Bremse, at the Scapa Flow Visitor Centre, Hoy, Orkney German Empire Naval gun Railroad gunCoastal artillery yes yes 1908—45 German EmpireNazi GermanyOttoman Empire World War IWorld War II Krupp 1906 Krupp 1908 5730 kg lb 6.71 m ftin 1 6.32 m ftin 1L/45 separate loading quick fire 149.1 mm in 5-7 rpm 840 m/s ft/s See table horizontal sliding-wedge Hydro-spring See table −150° to +150° The 15 cm SK L/45SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon); L - Länge in Kaliber (length in caliber) was a German naval gun used in World War I and World War II. Naval service The 15 cm SK L/45 was a widely used naval gun on many classes of World War I dreadnoughts and cruisers in both casemates and turrets. It was constructed of an A tube and two layers of hoops with a Krupp horizontal sliding-wedge breech block. During World War I a few pre-war cruisers that were armed with 10.5 cm guns were rearmed with these weapons. In World War II the 15 cm SK L/45 was widely used as coastal artillery and as primary armament on German auxiliary cruisers. Ship classes that carried the 15 cm SK L/45 include: 18em Bremen cruiser 4 Brummer cruiser 4 Graudenz cruiser 4 Kolberg cruiser 4 Magdeburg cruiser 4 Pillau cruiser 4 + 15 cm SK L/45 mountsfrom NavWeaps Type of mount Designation Weight Elevation Range (during World War I) Ship classes Single pedestal mounts in casematesMPL C/0615770 kg lb on−7° to +20°14.9 km mi on at 20°Nassau battleship 5, Helgoland battleship 5, and Kaiser battleship 4es, Von der Tann 6, Moltke battlecruiser 4, BlücherMPL C/06.1116533 kg lb on−10° to +19°13.5 km mi on at +19König battleship 4, Seydlitz 2, Derfflinger battlecruiser 4, Lützow 2MPL C/1317950 kg lb on−8.5° to +1913.5 km mi on at +19Bayern battleship 4, Hindenburg 2, Mackensen battlecruiser 4MPL C/13 mod18350 kg lb on−8.5° to +2215.8 km mi on at +22Wartime modification to MPL C/13 Single pedestal mounts in open half-shieldsMPL C/1416185 kg lb on−10° to +22°15.8 km mi on at +22Wiesbaden cruiser 4, Königsberg cruiser 4 1915MPL C/1617116 kg lb on−10° to +27°16.8 km mi on at +27Cöln cruiser 4, Emden 1916 6MPL C/16 mod−10° to +3017.6 km mi on at +30wartime modification to MPL C/16 Ammunition Ammunition was of separate loading quick fire type. The projectiles were 61 cm ft on 1 long with a single bagged charge which weighed 13-14 kg lb on. The gun was able to fire: Armor piercing 45.3 kg lb on High explosive base fuzed 45.3 kg lb on High explosive nose fuzed 45.3 kg lb on Common shell 45.3 kg lb on Coast defense gun thumb|15 cm SK L/45 coastal artillery gun at Nord-Arnøya, Gildeskål Municipality, Norway thumb|Rear view of the above pictured gun The same gun was used for coast defense duties in concrete emplacements after World War I. One example was 3./Marine-Artillerie Abteilung 604 ("3rd Battery of Naval Artillery Battalion 604") in Jersey.Gander and Chamberlain, p. 266 They show it using 44 kg lb shells with a range of 18000 m yd Railroad gun 15 cm SK "Nathan" It was also used as a railroad gun during World War I. See also Weapons of comparable role, performance and era BL 6 inch Mk XII naval gun British equivalent Footnotes Notes Note Citations 25em References 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 Naval Weapons of World War Two Campbell, John Naval Institute Press 1985 0-87021-459-4 Naval Weapons of World War One Friedman Norman Seaforth 2011 978-1-84832-100-7 Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921 Naval Institute Press 1985 0-85177-245-5 Annapolis, Maryland Gardiner Robert Gray Randal External links the 15cm SK L/45 on NavWeaps Category:Naval guns of Germany Category:Krupp naval guns Category:World War I naval weapons Category:World War II naval weapons Category:150 mm artillery Category:Coastal artillery