Hallo,
hat noch jemand Fotos von der Empress of Scotland als Truppentransporter. Im Internet waren nur zwei Stück zu finden und in meiner Literatur gibts auch nix.
Gruss
Andreas

Einziges Foto habe ich in "Liners in Battledress" gefunden,im Hafen von LaValetta.Wohl hellgrau üa.

Dazu eine seitliche Luftaufnahme im Netz mit ziemlich dunkler Farbgebung.

Viel wird es wahrscheinlich nicht geben leider.

Hier ein Bild was ich gefunden habe:

eos15.jpg - Bild entfernt (keine Rechte)

Vielen Dank, beiden. "Liners in Battledress" hätte ich auch selbst drauf kommen können. Schönes Fotos, aber ich kann keinerlei Bewaffnung erkennen.
Ich kann aber schon mal anfangen.
Gruss Andreas

Hier noch was zur Bewaffnung:

The 118th was given the choice duty of serving as auxiliary Gun Crews manning all the ship's guns alongside the regular British gunners who would supervise our gunnery activities. Our training did not stop with that initial training period. It continued every day with practice and dry runs. On the gun I was assigned to, training included the traversing and elevation settings of the gun. There was a traversing man on the left of the gun and an elevation man on the right of the gun. Then there was a breech man and a lanyard man (who ultimately fired the gun). There were three ammunition handlers. The ship was equipped with two 12 pounders, one each on the starboard and port sides, on the monkey bridge. (A British 12 Pounder is equivalent to an American 75 mm artillery piece). I served on the starboard side gun. I well remember the British Gunner in charge of the gun, a British navy man, Fred Pritchet of Nottingham, England. The other big gun was a stern mounted 6 incher. And, if memory serves me right, the Sun Deck contained, six 40 mm pom pom antiaircraft guns and 8 or 9 racks of rockets. The 118th gunners, working in four-hour shifts, would man the guns 24 hours, around the clock. Also, the gunners would serve as lookouts, searching for periscopes on the waters out to the horizon. In addition, the small arms firepower of the rest of the 118th would be brought to bear in the event of a submarine sighting.

Kompletter Text und Quelle: http://www.118trs.com/history-of-the-118...ess-of-scotland