10.5 cm SK L/35
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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.
A 10.5 cm SK L/35 on a Vavasseur mounting.
Pre-dreadnought battleship
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Pre-dreadnought battleships were sea-going battleships built from the mid- to late- 1880s to the early 1900s. Their designs were conceived before the appearance of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 and their cl
HMS Royal Sovereign (1891) was the first pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy.
HMS Ocean was typical of pre-dreadnought battleships
HMS Dreadnought shows the low freeboard typical for early ironclad turret-ships. This ship, launched in 1875, should not be confused with her famous successor, launched in 1906, marking the end of the pre-dreadnought era.
The heavy guns and forward barbette of Mikasa's main battery