File:Stubbert's Point Twin Six-pounder Gun c1945.jpg
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Stubbert's Point fast-firing Twin Barrel (duplex) Six-pounder Gun In its steel turret, ca. 1945. These semi-automatic loading, duplex guns (dated 1943) could pour out eighteen rounds per minute; on Malta these same weapons were to play a vital role in the successful defense against an attack of that Mediterranean island by nineteen Italian MAS fast attack boats on 26 July 1941, when five enemy boats were sunk in less than two minutes.
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