The 2-pounder gun, officially the QF 2-pounder and universally known as the pom-pom, was a 40 mm British autocannon, used as an anti-aircraft gun by the Royal Navy. The name came from the sound that t
Quadruple 2 pdr MK VIII guns on Mk.VII mounting aboard HMAS Nizam August 1941
Australian troops with a QF 1-pounder Maxim auto cannon captured from the Boers
Posed photo of Mk II guarding a train against air attack, Mesopotamia, 1918
Gunners on HMCS Assiniboine fire their 2 pdr while escorting a troop convoy from Halifax to Britain, 10 July 1940.
The Yarrow Later M class were a class of seven destroyers built for the Royal Navy that saw service during World War I. They were sometimes described as the Yarrow R class of destroyers, although they
A painting of the sinking of HMS Ulleswater by Charles Pears