Atlantic Wall (Coastal Fortification: Atlantikwall) Regelbau M184 - Bunker With Emplacement for 15cm SK C/28 in Drh LC/34 Naval Turret From battlecruiser "Gneisenau" in World War 2 used as coast-defense guns after the war in HAWK Battery Stevns Fort, Denmark.
Artillery position m184 bunker, fitted with an armored double turret (2 x 150mm) from the cannibalized battlecruiser "Gneisenau".
At operation Cerberus in 1942, The Gneisenau along with Scarnhorst and Printz Eugen, broke through the English Channel from Brest in France to German Harbours. In this operation, the Gneisenau was damaged by a mine. It was to be repaired in Kiel, but against all rules, it was not emptied for ammunition before docking. During this docking the ship was hit by an air attack, and a bomb exploded in the 280 mm front triple revolving gun turret A. The explosion destroyed the entire front of the ship and 112 men were killed.
In 1943 Hitler ordered (Führerbefehl) that all heavy ships, from light cruisers and onwards, should be
demolished.
He was not satisfied with their efforts. Because of this “Führerbefehl, the artillery were removed from
the heavy units and used as the armament on the Atlantic Wall. neisenau itself was sunk as a block-
ship in the harbour of Gotenhaven (Gdynia) It was scrapped by the Poles after the war.
The two turrets from the Stevns Fort were originally placed on the north part of the western Danish
island Fanoe as The Graadyb Battery. (Batteri Graadyb).
In 1952 the turrets were moved from Fanoe to their current position on the Stevns Fort.
The 15 cm SK C/28 was a German medium-caliber naval gun used during the Second World War. It served as the secondary armament for the Bismarck class and Scharnhorst-class battleships, Deutschland-class cruisers and the Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers. A number of surplus weapons were used as coast-defense guns and eight were adapted to use Army carriages and used as heavy field guns as the 15 cm Schiffskanone C/28 in Mörserlafette.
Turret is Originally the guns were placed as secondary armament on the WW2 German pocket battleship Gneisenau of the Gneisenau/Scarnhorst class.
History of the Naval Turret
Surplus naval mountings were used to reinforce German coast defenses from Norway to the French Atlantic coast. These included guns from incomplete or disarmed ships like the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin or the battleship Gneisenau. For example, three or four of the Graf Zeppelin's Dopp MPL C/36 mounts equipped both batteries of Naval Artillery Battalion (Marine-Artillerie-Abteilung) 517 at Cap Romanov near Petsamo, Finland while two of the Gneisenau's Drh. LC/34 mounts were emplaced on the west coast of Denmark at Esbjerg where they equipped Batterie Gneisenau of Naval Artillery Battalion 518. All told, a total of 111 SK C/28 guns were employed on coast defense duties in a variety of mounts, 12 in Denmark.
Surviving guns in Denmark were used throughout the Cold War by both countries.
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