The 8.8 cm SK L/30 gun weighed 644 kilograms and had an overall length of about 2.64 meters. It used the Krupp horizontal sliding block, or "wedge", as it is sometimes referred to, breech design. In a

The A-class torpedo boats were a class of German single-funnelled torpedo boat/light destroyer designed by the Reichsmarineamt for operations off the coast of occupied Flanders in the First World War.