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15 cm SK L/45

Field	Value
name	15 cm SK L/45
image	German gun from SMS Bremse - geograph.org.uk - 118942.jpg
image_size	300
caption	Gun salvaged from , at the Scapa Flow Visitor Centre, Hoy, Orkney
origin	German Empire
type	Naval gun
Railroad gun
Coastal artillery
is_explosive	yes
is_artillery	yes
service	1908—45
used_by	Germany
wars	World War I
World War II
designer	Krupp
design_date	1906
manufacturer	Krupp
production_date	1908
weight	5730 kg
length	6.71 m
part_length	6.32 mL/45
cartridge	separate loading quick fire
caliber	149.1 mm
rate	5-7 rpm
velocity	840 m/s
max_range	See table
breech	horizontal sliding-wedge
recoil	Hydro-spring
elevation	See table
traverse	−150° to +150°

Railroad gun Coastal artillery World War II

The 15 cm SK L/45SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon); L - Länge in Kaliber (length in caliber) was a German naval gun used in World War I and World War II.

Naval service

The 15 cm SK L/45 was a widely used naval gun on many classes of World War I dreadnoughts and cruisers in both casemates and turrets. It was constructed of an A tube and two layers of hoops with a Krupp horizontal sliding-wedge breech block. During World War I a few pre-war cruisers that were armed with 10.5 cm guns were rearmed with these weapons. In World War II the 15 cm SK L/45 was widely used as coastal artillery and as primary armament on German auxiliary cruisers.

Ship classes that carried the 15 cm SK L/45 include:

Type of mount	Designation	Weight	Elevation	Range (during World War I)	Ship classes
Single pedestal mounts in casemates	MPL C/06	15770 kg	−7° to +20°	14.9 km at 20°	, , and es, {{SMS	Von der Tann
	MPL C/06.11	16533 kg	−10° to +19°	13.5 km at +19	, {{SMS	Seydlitz	2}}, , {{SMS	Lützow
	MPL C/13	17950 kg	−8.5° to +19	13.5 km at +19	, {{SMS	Hindenburg	2}},
	MPL C/13 mod	18350 kg	−8.5° to +22	15.8 km at +22	Wartime modification to MPL C/13
Single pedestal mounts in open half-shields	MPL C/14	16185 kg	−10° to +22°	15.8 km at +22	, {{sclass	Königsberg	cruiser	4
	MPL C/16	17116 kg	−10° to +27°	16.8 km at +27	,
	MPL C/16 mod		−10° to +30	17.6 km at +30	wartime modification to MPL C/16

Ammunition

Ammunition was of separate loading quick fire type. The projectiles were 61 cm long with a single bagged charge which weighed 13-14 kg.

The gun was able to fire:

Armor piercing 45.3 kg
High explosive base fuzed 45.3 kg
High explosive nose fuzed 45.3 kg
Common shell 45.3 kg

Coast defense gun

The same gun was used for coast defense duties in concrete emplacements after World War I. One example was 3./Marine-Artillerie Abteilung 604 ("3rd Battery of Naval Artillery Battalion 604") in Jersey. They show it using 44 kg shells with a range of 18000 m

Railroad gun

Main article: 15 cm SK "Nathan"

It was also used as a railroad gun during World War I.

Footnotes

Notes

Citations

References

from NavWeaps
Gander and Chamberlain, p. 266

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