13.5 cm K 09

13.5 cm Kanone 09 Krupp 135mm Field Gun Full.JPG 300 Surviving Krupp 13.5cm K09 Field Gun in the Wellington Botanic Garden German Empire Heavy field gun yes German Empire World War I Krupp Krupp about 190 Travel: 7847 kg lb onCombat: 6730 kg lb onGerman artillery:1914-1918 Fleischer Wolfgang February 2015 9781473823983 58 Pen & Sword Military Barnsley 893163385 8.2 m ftin on 5.4 m ftin on (L/35.6) 1.92 m ftin on Separate loading, cased charge and projectile 42 kg lb on 135 mm in on 3 rpm 695 m/s ft/s on 16.5 km mi on Horizontal sliding-block Hydro-pneumatic 1.42 m ftin on Box trail -5° to +26° 4° The 13.5 cm Kanone 09 (13.5 cm K 09) was a heavy breech-loading field artillery gun used by Germany in World War I. Built by Friedrich Krupp AG, in Essen, Germany, this gun was intended to supplement the 10 cm K 04. Only four of the sixteen built were in service at the outbreak of the war.Jäger, p. 29 It was withdrawn from service in 1915 as it was deemed to be too much gun for too little shell, but it was returned to service later in the war when the Allied blockade began to affect German ammunition production. Technical details The breech was a horizontal Krupp guide shaft breech, the shell and propellant charge were separated. The hydraulic recoil brake had a maximum stopping distance of 1.42 m, and the mount was a one-piece box spar mount. The gun fired using wheeled belts and was easily maneuverable off-road. War trophies One of these guns was captured during the Battle of the Canal du Nord, on 29 September 1918, by the New Zealand Division. Two battalions of the Wellington Regiment were engaged in this action, which was part of an Allied attack on the Hindenburg Line. At the end of the war, the captured gun, Nr 4, and many other captured German weapons were sent to New Zealand as war trophies. In 1920, Nr 4 was given to the city of Wellington in honor of its soldiers. The gun, believed to be one of a few remaining in existence, is currently on public display in the Wellington Botanic Garden. In 1921 the Channel Island of Guernsey received its share of the Allies' spoils of war, four K09 Kanon. Displayed near Victoria Tower in Saint Peter Port until in 1938 two having badly deteriorated, were scrapped. The remaining two were quickly buried in 1940 before the Island was occupied by German forces. Forgotten about, they were dug up in 1978 and are now again on display next to Victoria Tower. http://www.greatwarci.net/memorabilia/pdf/guns.pdf The Guernsey Guns Great War CI Notes References Hogg, Ian. Twentieth-Century Artillery. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2000 0-7607-1994-2 Jäger, Herbert. German Artillery of World War One. Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire: Crowood Press, 2001 1-86126-403-8 External links Images of the gun in Wellington June 2017 Category:World War I artillery of Germany Category:135 mm artillery