5.2 cm rapid loading cannon L / 55
| 5.2 cm rapid loading cannon L / 55 | |
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| General Information | |
| Military designation: | 5.2 cm SK L / 55 |
| Manufacturer country: |
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| Developer / Manufacturer: | Croup |
| Development year: | 1904 |
| Production time: | 1905 to? |
| Model variants: | 2 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Pipe length: | 2,860 mm |
| Caliber : |
52 mm |
| Caliber length : | 55 caliber |
| Number of trains : | 20th |
| Cadence : | 20 rounds / min |
| Elevation range: | + 20 / −5 angular degrees |
| Side straightening area: | ± 360 ° |
| Furnishing | |
| Closure Type : | Wedge lock |
The 5.2 cm SK L / 55 (SK = Schnellladekanone ) was a ship gun of the German Imperial Navy which was used in the First World War .
General
The light of Krupp developed quick-firing gun in the German Imperial Navy as a quick-charging gun (abbreviation: SK) called and used from this in 1906, was on a central pivot lafette C / 1903 stored and therefore bore the official abbreviation 5.2 cm SK L / 55 in MPL C / 03 .
The cannon with its 2.86 m long barrel weighed 386 kg with the mount . It had a muzzle velocity of 850 m / s and with a projectile weight of 1.75 kg and a tube elevation of 20 ° a range of 7100 meters. This was about 900 m more than the range of the 5.0 cm SK L / 40, which has been used as the standard weapon on German torpedo boats since 1893 .
Due to their greater range and penetrating power the cannon was therefore from 1906 to torpedo boat defense on the light cruisers of Konigsberg - and the Dresden class , as flak on the light cruisers of Kolberg - and Pillau class and as the main artillery on the last six boats Built in 1898 ( S 132 , S 133 and G 134 to G 137 ) of the type large torpedo boat . Thereafter, torpedo boats were equipped with the more powerful rapid loading cannons of caliber 8.8 and 10.5 cm . During the First World War , a number of older torpedo boats had their 5.0 cm L / 40 guns replaced by the 5.2 cm L / 55. Likewise, the speedboat predecessors in the Reichsmarine , the submarine destroyers UZ 1 - UZ 22 , carried this weapon.
literature
- Norman Friedman: Naval weapons of World War One. Guns, torpedoes, mines and ASW weapons of all nations. Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley 2011 ISBN 978-1-84832-100-7 .
Web links
- 5.2 cm SK L / 55 on navweaps.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedmann. Naval weapons of World War One. P. 147
- ↑ Erich Gröner: The German warships 1815-1945. Vol. 2: Torpedo boats, destroyers, speedboats, minesweepers, mine clearance boats . Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 1983, ISBN 3-7637-4801-6 , p. 121