" QF 77mm Mark I gun (1917)(Captured German field gun. 60 taken over for D.A.M.S.)
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60 guns and mountings mounted in D.A.M.S. all later returned to land service."
The above 'one-liner' appears in a list of British naval ordnance and clearly suggests that sixty captured German field guns were fitted onto Defensively Armed Merchant Ships. I cannot find anything on this subject and wondered if any member has knowledge of it. The prospect of finding any British markings, or British fuzes, on German ammunition for this ordnance would be of particular interest.
Thanks
Reference: Information discovered during research by Depotman
[…]
60 guns and mountings mounted in D.A.M.S. all later returned to land service."
The above 'one-liner' appears in a list of British naval ordnance and clearly suggests that sixty captured German field guns were fitted onto Defensively Armed Merchant Ships. I cannot find anything on this subject and wondered if any member has knowledge of it. The prospect of finding any British markings, or British fuzes, on German ammunition for this ordnance would be of particular interest.
Thanks
Reference: Information discovered during research by Depotman