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
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
21 cm RK L/22
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The 21 cm RK L/22 was a 21 cm caliber Krupp gun that was purposefully designed to use a combination of prismatic gunpowder, a built-up gun barrel, and the Krupp cylindroprismatic sliding breech with b
SMS Friedrich Carl (1867)
…Carl was equipped with a main battery of twenty-six rifled 72-pounder cannon. After her delivery to Germany, these guns were replaced with a pair of 21-centimeter (8.3 in) L/22 guns and fourteen 21-centimeter (8.3 in) L/19 guns. The L/22 gun could depress to −5 degrees and elevate to 13 degrees, which provided a range of 5,900 m…
Turkish 21 cm RK L/22 in Preveza, Greece
stereogram of Krupp guns displayed at the Vienna exhibition in 1873. The 21 cm RK L/22 is third from the right
Western fort Świnoujście