Landships II

nastle · Corporal

Just reading jager's book and other sources its clear that many heavy artillery like the 13cm, 15cm and 17cm naval guns were used by germans to compensate for long-range artillery

but none of these sources [ which are all in english for me sadly] give any numbers e.g how many guns were by 1914 or end of 1914 in such use ?
so its hard to tell if they really made a difference
does anybody have more information on this

question #2

germans had a model 1904 100mm long range gun how many were operational by 1914 ? Jaeger says 32 ONLY !

and he mentions also a 130mm long range gun does anyone have more information on how much of these were avalible

thank you

ALVF · Major

Hello,

The 17-cm naval gun was for the first time in land service in june 1917 only.
The 15-cm naval gun was in land service in 1915 only.
In August 1914, 32 13-cm gun Army guns were in service and 344 10-cm Kanone und 04.

A small point: in August 1914, some "export guns" were given to Naval Divisions in Flanders:
-2 13,5-cm Belagerungskanone L/35 �lterer Konstruktion f�r Marine.
-3 15-cm Belagerungskanone L/30 (Spanien) f�r Marine.
I have photographs of these two guns models with naval crew in 1914 and 1915 years.

I have published in french Review "Tank Zone" N� 12 august 2010 an article on 17-cm SKL/40 naval gun with 25 photographs mostly never published (with some in Flanders with naval crew).
Yours sincerely,
Guy Fran�ois.

CharlieC · Legend

I don't have access to Jaeger's book so would someone indicate how many 15cm and 17cm Naval guns were deployed on the Western front in WW1. There is a surviving 15cm iRL gun at North Head Artillery Museum in Sydney - they have been researching this gun and were after some background data on this type of gun.

Regards,

Charlie