What other weapons besides the QF 2-pounder naval gun, so named because of the sound it made when fired, were there on the HMS Foylebank?
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HMS Foylebank HMS "Foylebank was a converted 5,500 ton merchant ship active during the Second World War. She was launched as the MV "Foylebank by Bank Line (Andrew Weir Shipping) in 1930 and requisitioned by the Royal Navy in September 1939. She was converted into an anti-aircraft ship, equipped with 0.5 inch (12.7 mm) machine guns, two quad 2-pounder pom-poms and four twin high angle 4-inch gun turrets. The "Foylebank" saw action in Portland Harbour next to the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England. She arrived in Portland on 9 June 1940 for a build-up to anti-aircraft duties commanded by Captain H.P. Weir.
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QF 2-pounder naval gun The 2-pounder gun, officially designated the QF 2-pounder (QF denoting "quick firing") and universally known as the pom-pom, was a 40 mm British autocannon, used as an anti-aircraft gun by the Royal Navy. The name came from the sound that the original models make when firing. This QF 2-pounder was not the same gun as the Ordnance QF 2 pounder, used by the British Army as an anti-tank gun and a tank gun; they shared only the projectile weight of 2 pounds.
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HMS Rattler (1843) HMS "Rattler" was a 9-gun wooden sloop of the Royal Navy and the first British warship to adopt a screw propeller powered by a steam engine. She was arguably the first such warship in the world—the sloop USS "Princeton" was launched after the "Rattler", but was placed in commission much sooner.
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QF 4.5-inch Mk I – V naval gun The QF 4.5 inch gun has been the standard medium-calibre naval gun used by the Royal Navy as a medium-range weapon capable of use against surface, aircraft and shore bombardment targets since 1938. This article covers the early 45-calibre family of guns up to the 1970s. For the later unrelated 55-calibre Royal Navy gun, see 4.5 inch Mark 8 naval gun.
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HMS Plantagenet (1801) HMS "Plantagenet" was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 October 1801 at Woolwich. She was designed by Sir William Rule as one of the 'large class' 74s, and was the only ship built to her draught. As a large 74, she carried 24-pounder guns on her upper gun deck instead of the 18-pounder guns found on the middling and common class 74s.
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BL 12 inch Mk VIII naval gun The BL 12 inch naval gun Mark VIII was one of the first large British rifled breech-loading naval guns designed for the higher pressures generated by the new cordite propellant of the 1890s, and Britain's first large wire-wound gun. It represented a major advance compared to previous British guns.
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Albatross-class brig-sloop The "Albatross" class were built as a class of eight 18-gun brig-sloops for the Royal Navy. They were originally to have carried sixteen 6-pounder carriage guns, but on 22 April 1795 it was instructed that they should be armed with sixteen 32-pounder carronades, although two of the 6-pounders were retained as chase guns in the bows. Consequently, they were classed as 18-gun sloops. However, in service it was found that this armament proved too heavy for these vessels, and so in most vessels the 32-pounder carronades were replaced by 24-pounder ones.
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HMS Loch Fada (K390) HMS "Loch Fada" was the lead ship of the Loch-class frigate s of the British Royal Navy, built by John Brown & Company of Clydebank, Scotland, and named after Loch Fada in the Inner Hebrides.
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RML 9 inch 12 ton gun The RML 9 inch guns Mark I – Mark VI were large rifled muzzle-loading guns of the 1860s used as primary armament on smaller British ironclad battleships and secondary armament on larger battleships, and also ashore for coast defence.
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HMS Bedford (1698) HMS "Bedford" was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Woolwich Dockyard on 12 September 1698. She carried twenty-two 24-pounder guns and four (18-pounder) culverins on the lower deck; twenty-six 12-pounder guns on the upper deck; fourteen (5-pounder) sakers on the quarter-deck and forecastle; and four 3-pounder guns on the poop or roundhouse.
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HMS Maria (1807) HMS "Maria" was a gun-brig that the Royal Navy purchased in 1807 and commissioned at Antigua in 1808 under Lieutenant James Bennett. On 29 September she was sailing off Guadeloupe when she encountered the French corvette "Départment des Landes", of 22 guns (sixteen 24-pounder carronades, four 12-pounder guns, and two 9-pounder guns on the quarterdeck), plus a large swivel on the forecastle. "Départment des Landes" had a crew of at least 160 men and boys, commanded by Captain Joseph-François Raoul.
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Hermione-class frigate The "Hermione" class was a type of 30-gun frigates of the French Navy, carrying a half-battery of 12-pounder long guns on their lower deck as their main armament, and a complete battery of 6-pounder guns on the upper deck. Two ships of this type were built in 1699 on plans by Blaise Pangalo. They were labelled "5th-rank frigates-ships" at the time.
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HMS Arrow Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS "Arrow", after the projectile:
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QF 4.7-inch Gun Mk I–IV The QF 4.7 inch Gun Mks I, II, III, and IV were a family of British quick-firing 4.724 in naval and coast defence guns of the late 1880s and 1890s which served with the navies of various countries. They were also mounted on various wheeled carriages to provide the British Army with a long range gun. They all had a bore of 40 calibres length.
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HMS Ferret (1743) HMS "Ferret" was a 14-gun two-masted sloop of the Royal Navy, built on speculation by Henry Bird at Deptford Wet Dock on the Thames River, England in the same way as the preceding "Saltash" had been two years earlier. She was purchased while building by the Navy Board on 6 April 1743.
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HMS Surprise (1812) HMS "Surprise" was a 38-gun frigate of the "Leda" class of the Royal Navy, although all these fifth-rate frigates were re-classed as 46-gun under the general re-rating of February 1817, from when carronades on the quarter deck and forecastle were included in the rating.
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HMS Tenby (F65) HMS "Tenby" was a "Whitby"-class or Type 12 anti-submarine frigate of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. By the early 1970s, in the latter part of her career, she was one of three frigates which formed the Dartmouth Training Squadron and was used for the training of Royal Navy Officer Cadets before being promoted to Midshipmen.
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English ship Mary (1650) Speaker was a 50-gun third-rate frigate and the name ship of the "Speaker"-class , built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England by Christopher Pett at Woolwich Dockyard and launched in 1650. At the Restoration she was renamed HMS "Mary". By 1677 her armament had been increased to 62 guns.
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HMS Rocket (1894) HMS "Rocket" was a "Rocket"-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Clydebank in 1894, served mostly in home waters and was sold in 1912.
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30mm DS30M Mark 2 Automated Small Calibre Gun The 30mm DS30M Mark 2 is a ship-protection system made by MSI-Defence Systems consisting of a 30mm Mark 44 Bushmaster II cannon on an automated mount. It was designed to defend Royal Navy frigates from fast inshore attack craft armed with short-range missiles, rockets, rocket-propelled grenades, heavy machine guns or explosives. It replaced in this role the 30mm Oerlikon KCB gun on the DS30B, a similar powered mounting. The DS30M has also been added to patrol boats and corvettes for the Iraqi and Omani navies respectively.
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SBBL 32 pounder The SBBL 32 pounder was a smooth-bore breech loading gun made by converting older 32 pounder 42 cwt smooth-bore muzzle-loading guns. The guns chosen for conversion were Monk Pattern guns of 42 cwt, a lighter and shorter variant of muzzle loader. The cascabel of the gun was cut off and a double action breech block was fitted. A new vent was drilled in front of the breech mechanism, as the guns were designed to be fired with short friction tubes, the standard means of ignition for artillery pieces at the time.
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HMS Swift HMS "Swift" has been the name of numerous ships of the British Royal Navy: