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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
 
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.
 
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
 
stug3 said:
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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