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Actually it's the hint that gave it away. There were few HoS dying in somewhere far from home, necessitating a destroyer for transport, and a destroyer instead of something more grandeur transporting both a living and a dead HoS implies it's not a major naval power, and it's a short list from there on.You're a machine (I thought that one would take a tiny bit longer, very impressive)
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Is the small secondary gun, between the barrels of the main gun and the funnel in the picture, not part of its standard configuration?You're a machine (I thought that one would take a tiny bit longer, very impressive)
Here's my last for the day, and potentially (if you don't know the pic, if you do, likely a bit easier) a trickier one. The class/ship to identify is the one in the foreground, and the clue is that if ships were rated on their ability to play poker, both of those in the picture would probably be pretty good at it.....
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Is the small secondary gun, between the barrels of the main gun and the funnel in the picture, not part of its standard configuration?It looks way too big to be a machine gun, too big to be a 4", and no ship with a 3" looks like that.It's gotta be a Hotchkiss 3 pounder unless it's signature stock is actually not unique. Apparently I confused the secondaries on St.Louis and South Carolina in my memory and looked for 3 incher instead of 3 pounder. Though wasn't it obsolete long before WWII?
Could it be a Leander? Here's a picture of a model of HMAS Perth, a modified Leander. Other Leanders had single funnel unlike this one so that's accounted for. If the picture was taken from the deck by the aft portside anchor as seen here, and a boat was stored behind the portside secondary, obscuring it from the photo (maybe the angular thing on the top left of the boat is the gun's shield instead of part of the boat?)
. The Hotchkiss three-pounder was indeed no longer used in a military capacity, at least on front-line RN ships, during WW2 (although it pops up on some trawlers, corvettes and other smaller vessels). However, most larger RN vessels built before WW2 (it looks like a few years before WW, when they presumably decided they needed to focus on installing guns required for fighting and not ceremony, they stopped bunging them on everything from a CL up - the Ark Royal had them, but the KGVs didn't) carried 4 3pdr guns for saluting purposes. I think a lot of the cruisers and other vessels lost their three-pounders early in the war - so for bonus points, what was my (now clearly ridiculously obtuse) clue referring to (I think it should be fairly straightforward to work out, but more clues available on request )?) - here's a full-body shot of Ajax:
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). OK, something that I think will be easy for the fans of this particular navy amongst us, but which I'd have to rely on the caption for - all of the vessels in this shot are the same class, and were all launched before the Washington Naval Treaty came into effect....
. I definitely wouldn't want to be on the other end of three of them opening up!
. But were folk not familiar with the Argentinian Navy, it could be mistaken for a Trento without too much trouble..
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