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Not much to add to the above:
Collishaw reported that the twin gun N533 suffered a performance hit (of course it did - imagine how much more weight the thing had to carry!) but thought that the benifit of two guns outweighed the loss of climb.
Everyone else thought it was a dog and N533 was rapidly demoted to the Commanding Officer's hack. Whilst Collishaw was flying it he experienced nothing but trouble until his final flight when as Graeme says he made two claims.
When these twin gun machines were introduced, the triplane was starting to loose its performance advantage - anything that reduced that even further was bad news.
Markings as reported above with the exception that it had a black fin, not rudder. The white C on the stabilizer is only known for N533, there are no known photographs of N5490 and N5492 so they remain conjecture based upon the known markings of other Naval 10 machines.
Mike
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