Sketch of 28 cm 35. Note that the guns could only be loaded when the gunhouse was trained to 0 degrees.
The 11-inch guns were good enough to fire a 529-pound shell to 15,000-yards, but the small magazine only carried 60 rounds per gun and the nature of the turret design meant that shells could only be loaded when the gunhouse was trained to 0 degrees. Rate of fire was about 1 shell every 2 minutes. Photo via Navweaps.