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| On Board HDML 1321 "On Board HDML 1321 "You can see one of the soldiers boots as he sleeps next to the guns base (20mm Oerlikon canon), those on the bridge are my father (Ernie Palmer) and one of the Officers" Bro Palmer photo taken by Ron Reynolds HDML 1321's radio operator |
Initial armament was purportedly a Hotchkiss 2 1/2 pound quick firing canon. The QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss is pictured below.
The Hotchkiss was replaced with a 37mm T9 canon from the Bell Aircobra.
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| By Minorhistorian - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23148430 |
The stern gun was the Oerlikon 20 mm cannon. The 20mm Oerlikon was a tad unusual in that the shield was removed (see title image above.)
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| By Zimmerman, E A (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer - This is photograph A 9575 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2915163 |
HDML 1321 was also armed with two Lewis LMGs one on either side of the bridge.
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| Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=186665 |
The crew added two, twin .50 caliber Browning MGs, one on the starboard stern the other at the bow.
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| twin .50 calibre Browning MG's on board HDML 1321 photo courtesy Howard Whittaker |
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