10.5 cm SK L/40 naval gun

The 10.5 cm SK L/40 (SK - Schnelladekanone (quick-loading cannon) L - Länge (with a 40-caliber long barrel) was a German naval gun used in World War I and World War II.

Description
The 10.5 cm SK L/40 gun weighed 1555 kg, had an overall length of 4.475 m. 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 SMS Königsberg (1905):
 * Nr. 369L is on display at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa
 * A second is on display at Fort Jesus, Mombasa, Kenya
 * A third is located on a traffic island in Jinja, Uganda
 * From SMS Emden (1908):
 * A gun is on display at Hyde Park, Sydney, Australia
 * A second is located at the Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre in HMAS Kuttabul (naval base), the main naval base in Sydney
 * A third is on display at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra
 * From the Hilfskreuzer (auxiliary cruiser) SS Prinz Eitel Friedrich (1904)
 * A gun is on display at Memorial Park, Cambridge, NY, United States