The 10.5 cm SK L/35 was used as primary or secondary armament aboard corvettes, gunboats, pre-dreadnought battleships, protected cruisers, torpedo gunboats, and unprotected cruisers.
An unprotected cruiser was a type of naval warship that was in use during the early 1870s Victorian or pre-dreadnought era. The name was meant to distinguish these ships from “protected cruisers”, whi
SMS Gefion was an unprotected cruiser that had a thin protective deck; she served with the Imperial German Navy between 1895 and 1919.