• Source: 10.5 cm SK L/40 naval gun

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 1,555 kilograms (3,428 lb), had an overall length of 4.475 m (14 ft 8.2 in). 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



From Königsberg:
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:
A gun is on display at Hyde Park, Sydney, Australia
A second is located at the Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre in HMAS Kuttabul, 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
A gun is on display at Memorial Park, Cambridge, NY, United States




See also


List of naval guns
British BL 4 inch naval gun Mk VIII - firing slightly lighter shell




Notes


http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNGER_41-40_skc00.php




Sources


Campbell, John (2002). Naval Weapons of World War Two. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-87021-459-4.
Gander, Terry; Chamberlain, Peter (1979). Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of All Small Arms, Artillery and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939–1945. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-15090-3.
Hogg, Ian V. (1997). German Artillery of World War Two (2nd corrected ed.). Mechanicsville, PA: Stackpole Books. ISBN 1-85367-480-X.
Rolf, Rudi (1998). Der Atlantikwall: Bauten der deutschen Küstenbefestigungen 1940-1945. Osnabrück: Biblio. ISBN 3-7648-2469-7.
Rolf, Rudi (2004). A Dictionary on Modern Fortification: An Illustrated Lexicon on European Fortification in the Period 1800-1945. Middleburg, Netherlands: PRAK.




External links



SK L/40 at Navweaps.com

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