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10.5 cm SK C/32 naval gun

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31: 384: 347:. The Ubts LC/32 mounting used in type I and early type IX U-boats weighed about 5 tonnes. Later type IX and type XB U-boats used the lighter Ubts LC/36 mounting with a maximum elevation of +30° . During the early war years, these guns were used to encourage surrender of independently routed merchant ships or to sink ships damaged by torpedoes. 286:
The 10.5 cm SK C/32 was widely deployed on three different types of single mounts. The high-angle MPLC/30 was a modified 8.8 cm mount. The low-angle MPLC/32 was used on
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Some of these guns were later removed from U-boats for mounting aboard type 40 minesweepers after unshielded deck guns proved impractical in action against
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long, with a jacket and breech that weighed about 1.8 tons. The gun fired 10.5 centimeters (4.1 in)
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The 10.5 cm SK C/32 was the standard low-angle deck gun mounted forward of the conning tower in
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Two guns formed the main armament of the Romanian multi-purpose vessel
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4.74–4.86 meters (15 ft 7 in – 15 ft 11 in)
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Norway used this gun in coastal defence batteries until 2002.
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Submarine Insignia and Submarine Services of the World
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Horizontal: 15 kilometers (16,000 yd) at +44.4°
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Amiral Murgescu
Naval gun
Anti-aircraft gun
Coastal defence gun
World War II
Barrel
Shell
Shell
Caliber
Elevation
Muzzle velocity
naval gun
Kriegsmarine
World War II
anti-aircraft
coastal defence
built-up gun
calibers
fixed ammunition
effective full charges
Type 35 torpedo boats
Type 37 torpedo boats
minesweepers
Emden
Schlesien
Schleswig-Holstein
Elbing class torpedo boats
Amiral Murgescu
type I

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