"British Destroyers AA" Topic

Hi!;

I'm building a model of my Dad's ship, HMS Cossack, the 1944 one. My research shows that British destroyers often had unique distribution of their light AA weapons. Does anyone know of a site that would show or tell where the various light AA weapons were located on individual ships?

Plenty of info here:

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and here:

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Also search for a ship association.

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hmscossack.org/?LMCL=CJz2TP

Most of the "C" class war destroyers had a manually operated single 20mm in each bridge wing, a twin 40mm on a platform midway between the funnel and X mount, and two single 2pdrs on a platform directly abaft the funnel. Later units substituted a pair of single 40mm for the 2pdrs.

To : Virtual Scratchbuilder. Thanks for the info. AS I said I am attempting to build a model of my Dad's ship. HMS Cossack, "Co" class destroyer from 1944 to 1948. I bought the Atlantic Models HMS Constant kit which is a 1950-ish format so I ahve to retro-fit it a bit. Take out the Squid launcher, and replace D/C rails and throwers, and replace the original AA armament. My dad mentioned " Bofors" and "Pom-poms" but he tended to use the terms interchangeably. He was an Engine Room Artificer, so not really au fait with the armament! I met another bloke from the Cossack of the same time, but he was a Torpedo/Electrics AB, so also not really au fait with which guns were where. The model comes with four Bofors, So I guess I can add some Oerlikons and Pom-poms to it! Thanks to all repliers!

AND! There are lots of marvelous pictures of HMS Cossack (D57) online, but do you think a single one shows the AA platform abaft the Funnel clearly!?

2pdrs are 40mm pom poms. Bofors are 40mm but they are totally different so he could mean exactly what he said, both.