21 cm RK L/19
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The 21 cm RK L/19 was the later name of a rifled breech loader gun of the Prussian Navy. This gun started with a massive gun barrel, cast from steel in one piece. In 1868 a built-up gun barrel version
Krupp 21 cm RK L/19 gun on a broadside carriage
21 cm RK L/19 in 1869
SMS Friedrich Carl (1867)
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SMS Friedrich Carl was an ironclad warship built for the Prussian Navy in the mid-1860s. The ship was constructed in the French Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée shipyard in
21 cm RK L/19
…the construction of the barrel had to be adapted for heavier charges. The Prussian navy now began to press for the British gun, because the ironclads Friedrich Carl, Kronprinz and König Wilhelm had to be armed. On 20 June 1868 the defence minister then decided to delay the decision on this armament by six weeks…
Friedrich Carl in the late 1880s or early 1890s
Illustration of the action between Friedrich Carl and the rebel steamer Vigilante
Illustration of the fleet conducting maneuvers, including Friedrich Carl and several other ironclads and other vessels