10.5 cm SK L/35

The 10.5 cm SK L/35 (SK - Schnelladekanone (quick-loading cannon) L - Länge (with a 35-caliber long barrel) was a German naval gun developed in the years before World War I that armed a variety of warships of the Imperial German Navy during World War I. In addition to the Imperial German Navy the 10.5 cm SK L/35 was used by the Royal Netherlands Navy, Ottoman Navy and Spanish Navy.

The 10.5 cm SK L/35 was used as primary or secondary armament aboard corvettes, gunboats, pre-dreadnought battleships, protected cruisers, torpedo gunboats, and unprotected cruisers.

Ships armed with the 10.5 cm SK L/35 include:

• Brandenburg-class battleships
• Bussard-class cruisers
• Carola-class corvettes
• Irene-class cruisers
• Koetei-class gunboats
• Peleng-i Deryâ-class torpedo gunboats

Ammunition was 105 x 656 mm R and of fixed QF type. A complete round weighed 21.4 kg (47 lb). The projectiles weighed 14 kg (31 lb).

The gun was able to fire:

• Armor Piercing

• High Explosive

• 10.5 cm SK L/40 naval gun : Successor to the SK L/35

• 4"/40 caliber gun : American equivalent

• Canon de 100 mm Modèle 1891 : French equivalent

• Cannon 102/35 Model 1914 : Italian equivalent

• QF 4 inch naval gun Mk I – III : British equivalent

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