Help Id these heavy coastal guns

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

Can somebody identify this coastal gun?

Image from Bundesarchive
Thanks in advance. Sturm78

[jopaerya]

Hi Sturm78

A 12 cm S.K.L/45 (h) of M.K.B. Kernwerk at Hoek van Holland

Regards Jos

[Sturm78]

Thank you very much for your help, Jopaerya.

Regards Sturm78

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

An old gun from Ebay. ??

Sturm78

[ROLAND1369]

My best guess is that it is a 170 MM L40 M 89 on Flakfort Copenhagen, Denmark.

[mkappius]

Hello Sturm78, hello ROLAND1369,

this could also be a german island.

They have wrote on the gun:

KANONEN MITNEHMEN VERBOTEN!
DER INSELVOGT.

(It's forbidden to take the guns away!
Lord (?) of the island.)

Was there a 170 mm L40 gun in "Schirmlafette" on a german island?

Or was it only a joke, german soldiers wrote on the danich gun?

Michael

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

Any ideas about these two images?

Images from Ebay
Sturm78

[jopaerya]

Hi Sturm78

Your first picture looks a 75 mm A.L.K. L/30 M.14/16 with a bigger gun in the back ( looks the rivits )
and the second one could be a 15 cm S.K.L/55 but I am not 100% sure about that one .

Regards Jos

[Manuferey]

and the second one could be a 15 cm S.K.L/55 but I am not 100% sure about that one. Regards Jos

There is some kind of device (recoil mechanism?) on top of the breach that the 15 cm SK L/55 does not normally have.

The other gun on the left is a French 7,5 cm CA Mle 1922 type naval gun. So the bigger coastal gun could also be either French or Polish.

Emmanuel

[kstdk]

Hello

Could the picture "Coastal Gun.jpg" by Sturm be from Middelgrunds Fortet:

http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/htm/baggrund/t ... 20bruddet/

The other from Denmark could be Masnedø fort with 4 x 12 cm. h.S.K. L/45 M/12 which were removed in 1940?

Though I dont think the schield looks the same??

Regards
Kurt
kstdk

[jopaerya]

Hi Emmanuel

Maybe the larger gun is a Bofors gun ( 12 cm ) ??

Regards Jos

[Manuferey]

Jos,

I think it could be instead a Bofors 152 mm M1930 (15,2 cm SK L/55).

See the bottom post of this thread and the following page:
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 3&start=45.

Look at the last picture: there seems to be a recoil cylinder above the breach and the barrel shape matches.

This gun, along with the French 75 mm AA gun could have captured in Hela.

See the post of 07 Aug 2011 here for the French AA gun and the previous page: http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... &start=915 )

This could explain how the guns ended up next to each other on the picture.

Emmanuel

[Sturm78]

Thank you for your help, Jopaerya and Emmanuel.

Sturm78

[bakof]

Hi.

I'm sorry to say, that I can't help identifying those guns, but I can say without any doubt, that none of the pictures are from Masnedøfort in Denmark.

br.
bakof

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

I guess 15cm SK C/28 gun. Can somebody identify the battery?
According to photocaption, France.

Image from Ebay
Sturm78