Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The 30.5 cm SK L/50 gun was a heavy gun mounted on 16 of the 26 German capital ships built shortly before World War I. The gun, firing a shell slightly greater than 12 inches in diameter, was designed in 1908, and entered service in 1911, when the four Helgoland-class battleships—the first ships to carry the weapons—were commissioned into the High Seas Fleet. It was also mounted on the five subsequent Kaiser and four König-class battleships, as well as the three Derfflinger-class battlecruisers. The guns were used to great effect at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916, when the two Derfflinger-class ships, Derfflinger and Lützow, used them to destroy the British battlecruisers Queen Mary and Invincible. The gun was eventually superseded in German naval use by the much larger and more powerful 38 cm SK L/45.Before World War I, 30.5 cm SK L/50 guns were emplaced on the islands of Helgoland and Wangerooge to defend Germany's North Sea coast. One battery was emplaced during the war to defend the port of Zeebrugge in Occupied Flanders. The guns on Helgoland were destroyed by the victorious Allies at the end of the war, but the battery at Wangerooge survived intact. Three of its guns were transferred to Helgoland after the island was remilitarized in 1935. During the Second World War, the other three guns were transferred to France and employed in coastal defense positions along the English Channel.. }
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- 50_gun abstract "The 30.5 cm SK L/50 gun was a heavy gun mounted on 16 of the 26 German capital ships built shortly before World War I. The gun, firing a shell slightly greater than 12 inches in diameter, was designed in 1908, and entered service in 1911, when the four Helgoland-class battleships—the first ships to carry the weapons—were commissioned into the High Seas Fleet. It was also mounted on the five subsequent Kaiser and four König-class battleships, as well as the three Derfflinger-class battlecruisers. The guns were used to great effect at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916, when the two Derfflinger-class ships, Derfflinger and Lützow, used them to destroy the British battlecruisers Queen Mary and Invincible. The gun was eventually superseded in German naval use by the much larger and more powerful 38 cm SK L/45.Before World War I, 30.5 cm SK L/50 guns were emplaced on the islands of Helgoland and Wangerooge to defend Germany's North Sea coast. One battery was emplaced during the war to defend the port of Zeebrugge in Occupied Flanders. The guns on Helgoland were destroyed by the victorious Allies at the end of the war, but the battery at Wangerooge survived intact. Three of its guns were transferred to Helgoland after the island was remilitarized in 1935. During the Second World War, the other three guns were transferred to France and employed in coastal defense positions along the English Channel.".