Id. naval guns

[jopaerya]

Thanks VladAlex

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

Can anyone identify this gun?

Image from EBay
Sturm78

[jopaerya]

Any idea on this gun ?? photo is from Ebay .

Regards Jos

[vladalex]

Hi all,

Can anyone identify this gun?

Image from EBay
Sturm78

10,5 cm Ubts.u.Tbts.Flak L/45(Krupp) in 10,5 cm Ubts.u.Tbts.L.C/1916

Regards,
VladAlex.

[Sturm78]

Thank you for your help, vladalex.

Regards Sturm78

[jopaerya]

This picture looks a lot like the picture in my last question , but it's not 100% the same .

Picture = Ebay

Regards Jos

[vonkalts]

Hi, I found this picture,can you identify this naval gun?

Thanks
Thanasis

[vonkalts]

Hmm.. Fletcher Naval Gun Turret 5"/38

[vladalex]

Congratulations,
It's quite this gun !
Best regards,
VladAlex.

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

Can anyone identify this gun? Not German but.... :roll:

Image from EBay
Sturm78

[Manuferey]

Maybe French? One of the naval guns “sur affût enveloppant”?

Emmanuel

[Clive Mortimore]

Hi all,

Can anyone identify this gun? Not German but.... :roll:

Image from EBay
Sturm78

British QF 4inch MkIV used in WW2 as coast defence and on Defence Equipped Merchant Ships.http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNBR_4-40_mk4.htm

Photo of one as a beach emergency gun appears in Hoggs British and American Artillery of WW2.

[CPT Bob]

The SMS Weissenburg (aka: Turgut Reis) was commissioned in 1884. I understand that during the Gallipoli Campaign her eight 10.5 cm SK L/35 guns were removed and used on land. Specially-designed Krupp Field Artillery carriages were sent to the Turks for this purpose. Artillerymen-Instructors accompanied the new equipment.

The photos’ captions describe Germans and a Naval Gun defending the Dardanelles, but it does not clearly identify the Type of Gun.

I am helping research the Guns of the SMS Konigsberg elsewhere on the FORUM, and I am most interested in the Krupp carriage. It appears identical to four Krupp carriages sent to East Africa and mounted with guns salvaged from the Konigsberg, which was commissioned in 1906 and was armed with ten 10.5cm SK L/40 guns.

Specifically, the Dardanelles-gun’s elevation adjustment hand-wheel can clearly be seen in the photos. There is no clear evidence of a hand-wheel in any the “Konigsberg-Krupp” photos, although several unclear images may show a wheel mounted low on the right side of the carriage forward of the axle.

The recoil mechanism was located on the top of the Dardanelles-barrel and on the bottom of the Konigsberg’s. It is possible that the difference required that the hand-wheel be mounted differently. (This is only a Guess!)

There is a Konigsberg-Krupp on display at Fort Jesus in Mombasa, but it has been stripped of all its elevation adjustment mechanism long ago.

Is that a SK L/35 in the “Dardanelles” photos? If it is, did it necessarily come from the SMS Weissenburg, or was it a type of gun that was also requisitioned from other ships in the Fleet?

Does anyone know about that type of Krupp carriage?

Bob

[ltcolonel]

Bob, I've never seen hydraulic and breach mechanism on Krupp guns shown in the first two photos. I think it's a Vickers system not Krupp.

[ludvig]

Hello ,
Photos marked t15 ( 78,7 Kib ) and t13 ( 73,2 Kib ) shows the rare :
10,5 cm Küstenkanone L/50 in Räderlafette from Krupp . Photos are from
The German battery 614 in 1916 , Darnanelles . Notice the vertical breech
wedge . Book sources :
- Das Ehrenbuch der Deutschen schwweren Artillerie
- Korsar ,Band II , page 74
- Jäger , page 106 and 107
- internet

ludvig