Original Item. Only One Available. The 10.5 cm SK C/32 (SK - Schiffskanone (ship board cannon) C - Construktionsjahr (year of design), was a widely used German naval gun on a variety of Kriegsmarine ships during World War II. Originally designed as a surface weapon, it was used in a number of other roles such as anti-aircraft and coastal defence; wet-mounts were developed for U-boats. On the base of the round are the German Navy acceptance stamps, with the well-known Eagle M Kriegsmarine proof. Like all deactivated ordnance, this projectile is Not Available for Export.

This is a tremendously rare armor-piercing round for the SK C/32 Naval Cannon. The bottom of the casing is heavily deteriorated, but some markings can still be discerned, most notably the Kriegsmarine Eagle M inspection marking which verifies this as a Naval round. Due to heavy oxidation and deterioration, some markings are too difficult to make out. The parts we can read are:

Cs
59
ck 44
(KM Eagle)
10,5 cm - 32 St

This denotes a manufacture date of 1944, but we couldn’t discern much else. The side of the projectile does retain partial markings but only partial due to the heavy oxidation, and none of the markings we saw really helped much. There is a white over red band painted around the projectile. Thankfully, we were able to unscrew the bottom piece of the projectile, and inside were some very clear markings, reading:

BdZf 10cm Pzgr
RhS 166 1938 11e* (Waffenamt Eagle) WaA121

The casing of the round has some heavy cracking and holes in the side and edges due to extremely heavy oxidation. The round does sit fine in the casing but it takes time to get it to sit properly. With the projectile inserted, the round measures 39¾” tall and 5” in diameter.

A great example of a scarce round, ready for further research and display.

The 10.5 cm SK C/32 was a built-up gun, 45 calibers long, with a jacket and breech that weighed about 1.8 tons. The gun fired 10.5 centimeters (4.1 in) fixed ammunition, which was 1.51 m (5.0 ft) long, weighed 24.2 kg (53 lb) and had a 4.08-kilogram (9.0 lb) propellant charge. Useful life expectancy was 4,100 effective full charges (EFC) per barrel.

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 Type 35 torpedo boats, Type 37 torpedo boats and Type 40 minesweepers. The high-angle MPLC/32 gE was used on the cruiser Emden, the battleship Schlesien, the battleship Schleswig-Holstein, Elbing class torpedo boats, Type 35 minesweepers and Type 43 minesweepers.

The 10.5 cm SK C/32 was the standard low-angle deck gun mounted forward of the conning tower in type I, type IX and type X U-boats. 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° .[1] During the early war years, these guns were used to encourage surrender of independently routed merchant ships or to sink ships damaged by torpedoes.
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 Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships and escorted trade convoys.

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