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 , had an overall length of . 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 : 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 : A gun is on display at Hyde Park, Sydney, Australia A second is located at the Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre in , the main naval base in Sydney A third is on display at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra From the Hilfskreuzer (auxiliary cruiser) A gun is on display at Memorial Park, Cambridge, NY, United States