Postby Guthlac » Tue Apr 08, 2014 8:59 pm
Angus Konstam's book British Motor Gun Boat 1939-45 (published in 2010) shows on page 8 MGB 8 armed with a Rolls Royce 2 pounder. This is an illustration but there is a photo on page 38 of MGB 10 in Dover Harbour "in early 1942" with a Rolls Royce 2-pdr aft. He also notes (page 31) that "the Rolls Royce 2-pdr was introduced in mid-1940; although an improvement on the existing hand-loaded 2-pdr as it was faster to use, it was awkward to operate, but it had a slightly higher rate of fire". He says that the weapon "was capable of firing High Explosive (HE) rounds and had an effective range of 1,500 yards".