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English: The original caption says that this is a 'lange 30.5 cm Kanone', i.e. a long 30.5 cm gun. The English caption reads: ' 12 inch (38 tons) gun on coastal carriage.

If it would be a long gun in the sense of how Krupp originally used the words long and short, this would be a 22 caliber long gun (i.e. 30.5 cm MRK L/22). However, a comparison with the photos of that gun shows that the upper part of the carriages is almost identical, but that the barrel of this gun is significantly longer. According to the caption, it is also heavier, as the MRK L/22 photos have an English caption referring to the 36 tons weight of the L/22 gun, and this photo says 38 tons.
The explanation are the trials of 1878 in Meppen. On that occassion Krupp itself referred to a: 'lange 30,5 cm Kanone in Küsten-Lafette' with a length of 7,650 m and a weight of 38,700 kg including the breech. The 28 cm L/22 was then referred to as 'short'. The 30.5 cm gun was said to stand on an older, adapted coastal carriage (https://books.google.nl/books?id=s3pMAAAAYAAJ p=30, 32). The latter explains the striking similarities between the upper parts of the carriages.

All this identifies the gun as a 30.5 cm MRK L/25.
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Source http://nek.istanbul.edu.tr:4444/ekos/FOTOGRAF/91188---0036.jpg İstanbul University, Head Office of Library and Documentation
Author Probably Hugo van Werden (1836-1911)

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30.5 cm MRK L/25 on coastal carriage

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