13.5 cm cannon 09
| 13.5 cm cannon 09 | |
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| General Information | |
| Military designation: | 13.5 cm cannon 09 |
| Manufacturer country: |
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| Developer / Manufacturer: | Friedrich Krupp AG |
| Development year: | 1907 |
| Start of production: | 1909 |
| Number of pieces: | 190 |
| Weapon Category: | heavy field artillery |
| Technical specifications | |
| Overall length: | 8.20 m |
| Pipe length: | 5.40 m |
| Caliber : |
135 mm |
| Caliber length : | L / 35.6 |
| Cadence : | 3 rounds / min |
| Elevation range: | -5 ° to + 26 ° angular degrees |
| Side straightening area: | 4 ° |
| Furnishing | |
| Charging principle: | manually |
| Ammunition supply: | manually |
The 13.5-cm-Kanone 09 (13.5-cm-K 09) was a gun of the heavy field artillery of the German Army , which was used in the First World War .
history
It was originally intended as a supplement to the 10 cm cannon 04 . At the beginning of the war, only four of the 16 guns that had existed up to that point were used.
A horizontal Krupp guide wave seal served as a seal , grenade and propellant charge were separated. The hydraulic recoil brake had m a braking distance of no more than 1.42, in the carriage, it was a one-piece box Holm - mount .
The gun was also used in the Italian theater of war.
Victoria Tower on Guernsey with one of the guns
German 13.5 cm cannon 09 on October 25, 1915 in firing position near Gorizia .
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spoils of war
On September 29, 1918, the New Zealand Division was used in the fighting on Canal du Nord . Parts of the "Wellington Regiment" captured the cannon with the number 4, which was sent as booty to New Zealand after the end of the war . In 1920, the Wellington cannon was handed over in honor of the soldiers from this town . As one of the few surviving specimens, it is now in the Wellington Botanical Gardens.
In 1921 Guernsey was given four of these guns as a share of the Allied spoils of war . Here they were at the Victoria Tower in Saint Peter Port until 1938 two of them were scrapped because of their poor condition. The other two were buried in the ground in 1940 so that they would not fall into the hands of the German Wehrmacht . Afterwards they were forgotten, they were rediscovered in 1978 and have stood in their old place ever since.
Footnotes
- ↑ Jäger, p. 29
- ↑ http://www.greatwarci.net/memorabilia/pdf/guns.pdf
literature
- Ian Hogg : Twentieth-Century Artillery . New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2000 ISBN 0-7607-1994-2
- Herbert Jäger: German Artillery of World War One . Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire: Crowood Press, 2001 ISBN 1-86126-403-8
Web links
- Images of the gun in Wellington
- Wolfgang Fleischer: German artillery: 1914-1918, ISBN 978-1-4738-2398-3 . P. 58