White Ensign Models 1/350 HMS Musketeer Royal Navy Destroyer Kit March 1943 (K3519)

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White Ensign Models 1/350 HMS Musketeer Royal Navy Destroyer Kit March 1943 (K3519)
With the J Class, the six(3x2) 4.7-inch Mk XII guns were in open mounts with splinter shielding protecting the front and sides of each mount. In fighting these guns, the crew was subject to the effects of weather and heavy sea. For all of the years since the end of Britain’s Wooden Walls of the sail Ships of the Line, the crusty old admirals, retrenched in the admiralty puffed that having gun crews open to the elements was good for them. It was claimed that this would harden them and make them better than the farmboys manning the guns in foreign "wantabee" navies. If manning guns open to the elements was good enough for them, it was good enough for the new recruits. However, by the late 1930s Japan and the United States had gone to completely enclosed mounts. By then it painfully clear that gun crews in an enclosed mount could concentrate in ranging and firing their guns, free from the obvious degradation of their efforts that would be caused by fighting the enemy and the weather concurrently. Clearly if a destroyer was taking it green, a gun crew would be greatly distracted in their efforts to prevent their being washed away. Additionally, any action the North Atlantic in winter or in the Arctic, would pose significant difficulties to the crew of any open gun.

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