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USS Saucy Armament

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  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
USS Saucy Armament
Posted by Don Stauffer on Monday, February 6, 2012 7:30 AM

I am starting to gather aftermarket stuff for my Matchbox Flower-class corvette, and the Saucy is one variant I am considering.   I am looking for the armament she carried.  One site listed the big main gun and then merely two 20mm Oerlikons, which I surmise would be the bridge wing guns.  But there should be a gun aft, on what I see called the "bandstand" a lot, that looks like a fairly large weapon- much larger than the Lewis machine guns the original Flowers carried.  What is that gun?  I have found a lot of sites about various Flowers in a google search, including several about Saucy, but not much about the actual armament.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

  • Member since
    March 2006
  • From: Bangor, Maine
Posted by alross2 on Monday, February 6, 2012 7:47 AM

Based on this photo http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/120906501.jpg she carried a 4"/50 forward, single 20mm in the bridge wings, single 20mm amidships port and starboard, and a 3"50 DP mount aft.

Al Ross 

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 8:04 AM

alross2

Based on this photo http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/120906501.jpg she carried a 4"/50 forward, single 20mm in the bridge wings, single 20mm amidships port and starboard, and a 3"50 DP mount aft.

Al Ross 

Thanks much, Al.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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