The 10.5 cm SK L/40 (SK - Schnelladekanone (quick-loading cannon) L - Länge (with a 40- caliber long barrel) was a

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Description

The 10.5 cm SK L/40 gun weighed , had an overall length of . 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 : ** Nr. 369L is on display at the

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in Pretoria, South Africa ** A second is on display at

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, Mombasa, Kenya ** A third is located on a traffic island in Jinja, Uganda *From : ** A gun is on display at

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, Australia ** A second is located at the Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre in , the main naval base in Sydney ** A third is on display at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra *From the ''Hilfskreuzer'' (auxiliary cruiser) ** A gun is on display at Memorial Park, Cambridge, NY, United States

Notes

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

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