RSS Feed
Feb 16

Armament

Posted on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 in ---01-Armament
Forward Gun Position, Singke 20 MM Oerlikon Mk IV, Royal Canadian Navy collection (GM-0015).

Forward Gun Position, Single 20mm Oerlikon Mk IV. Royal Canadian Navy collection (GM-0015)

Quarter-deck, Single 20MM Oerlikon MK IV, Royal Canadian Navy collection (HS-0268-12).

Quarterdeck, Single 20mm Oerlikon Mk IV. Royal Canadian Navy collection (HS-0268-12)

Royal Canadian Navy collection (F 806).

 June 1943, Gaspé, Quebec. Royal Canadian Navy collection (F 806)
Quarter-deck, O.M.L. "Y" Gun Mk III, Royal Canadian Navy collection (GL-0268-14).

Quarterdeck, O.M.L. “Y” Gun Mk III. Royal Canadian Navy collection (HS-0268-14)

Quarter-deck, Oerlikon Mk IV and "Y" Gun Mk III, Royal Canadian Navy collection (HS-0268-11).

Quarterdeck, Oerlikon Mk IV and “Y” Gun Mk III. Royal Canadian Navy collection (HS-0268-11)

O.M.L. "Y" Gun Mk III, H.W. Patterson collection.

O.M.L. “Y” Gun Mk III. H.W. Patterson collection

6 Feb, 1943, ""Y"" Gun depth charges aboard fairmile (Q052,62 or 63?) manned by The Free French Naval Forces. Library and Archives Canada / PA-107009.

 February 6, 1943, “Y” Gun depth charges aboard Fairmile (Q052,62 or 63?) manned by The Free French Naval Forces. Library and Archives Canada / PA-107009

Gunner Roy Woodruff at the Oerlikon aboard Q074. Musée Naval de Québec & Roy Woodruff collection.

Gunner Roy Woodruff at Oerlikon aboard Q074. Roy Woodfuff /Naval Museum of Quebec collection

Oerlikon 20 MM, Mk IV, origin unknown.

February 9, 1943, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Rating manning Oerlikon 20mm aboard unidentified Fairmile transferred to the French Naval Forces. Library and Archives Canada / PA-106350




Dec.1943.Patrol duty,Halifax.Nice view of depth charges and Y gun.Royal Candian Navy collection (GM 1265)

December 1943, Q079 on patrol duty, Halifax. Nice view of depth charges and “Y” gun. Royal Canadian Navy collection (GM 1265)

 

Smoke generator, Royal Canadian Navy collection (HS-0268-16)

Smoke generator, origin unknown.

Smoke generator, origin unknown

Spring-summer 1944, Patrolling among icebergs, from HMCS Preserver, Straits of Belle-Isle, Royal Canadian Navy collection (Z-349))

Spring/Summer 1944, patrolling among icebergs, from HMCS Preserver, Straits of Belle-Isle. Royal Canadian Navy collection (Z-349)

21 Jan. 1944, Experimental " Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar installetion aboard Fairmile. Halifax, N.S.

 January 21, 1944, Mousetrap, Experimental ” Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar installation aboard Fairmile. Halifax, Nova Scotia.  Library and Archives Canada / PA-114736

Alarm bell amidships, origin unknown.

Alarm bell , amidships, origin unknown

Old type 3-pounder Hotchkiss gun replaced later by Oerlikon 20 mm. Origin unknown.

 July 2, 1942. Old style 3-pounder Hotchkiss gun replaced later by Oerlikon 20mm. Newreel cameraman-Lucien Roy. Library and Archives Canada / E 296

Gunner Roy Woodruff at the 3-pounder Hotchkiss gun. Roy Woodruff / Musée Naval de Québec collection.

Early 1942, Q074. Gunner Roy Woodruff at 3-pounder Hotchkiss gun. Roy Woodruff /Naval Museum of Quebec collection

Sept.13, 2002. Roy Woodruff and his wife in visit in Quebec city. Musée naval de Québec collection

September 13, 2002. (60 yrs later), Roy Woodruff and his wife on visit in Quebec City.  Naval Museum of Quebec  collection

 

 

Q092, close view of Hotchkiss 3 pounder. Origin unknown

Q092, close view of  3- pounder Hotchkiss gun. Origin unknown

 

Summer 1943, 3 pounder Hotchkiss gun, Q109 during construction at Hunter Boats Shipyard, Orillia, Ontario. John Mackenzie collection

Summer 1943, 3- pounder Hotchkiss gun, Q109 during construction at Hunter Boats Shipyard, Orillia, Ontario. John Mackenzie collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Roy T. Cardy collection

Roy T. Cardy collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3-pounder Hotchkiss gun, Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, Nova-Scotia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Q112, after Oerlikon gun crew. J.J.Taylor Shipyard, Toronto, Ontario. Jim Taylor collection

Autumn 1943, Q112, after Oerlikon gun crew. J.J.Taylor Shipyard, Toronto, Ontario. Jim Taylor collection

Autumn 1943. Looking forward from bridege,showing Oerlikon gun ramp. J.J.Taylor Shipyard, Toronto, Ontario. Jim Taylor collection

Autumn 1943. Looking forward from bridge,showing Oerlikon gun ramp. J.J.Taylor Shipyard, Toronto, Ontario. Jim Taylor collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kathy Cullen collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kathy Cullen collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kathy Cullen collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kathy Cullen collection

 

David Carriere collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

David Carriere collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Posterity’s Sake collection

«
»

Comments are closed for this entry.