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Royal Navy destroyer HMS Express. She was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Gatineau in 1943.

HMS KEPPEL (D 84) – Shakespeare-class Flotilla Leader

 

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5 Inch 38 Caliber Enclosed Gun Mount & Handling Room

 

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I served for a while as a hot case man on a 5"38 single mount as shown above. The rate of fire that these were capable of (up to 20 rounds/min) depended entirely on a very fit crew and lots of practice. Manual loading, it's why a practice loader was installed on the quarterdeck! The Mk 37 fire control system was unparalleled in it's capability, at least for WWII era aircraft.

 

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The Fletcher and Tribal class were great ships.

 

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HMS Skate an Admiralty R class Destroyer laid down in 1916 by John Browns Clydebank launched 11th Jauary 1917. She was the oldest destroyer in the RN during WWII and the only 3 funnelled ship. Pictured in Liverpool 1942 between Atlantic Convoy duties.

HMS Skate (1917) - Wikipedia

 

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The Ca Class destroyer HMS Cavalier, the Royal Navy's last surviving WW2 vintage destroyer. She is preserved at Chatham Historic Dockyard.

Cavalier i

Cavalier ii

Cavalier iii

 

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5 Inch 38 Caliber Enclosed Gun Mount & Handling Room
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Probably one of the finest naval guns ever made. Nice.

 

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12 August, 1942: Operation Pedestal- HMS ITHURIEL coming in to ram the Italian submarine COBALTO.
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Photograph taken from HMS ITHURIEL showing the COBALTO from the destroyer's port side after ramming it.
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