Post by Administrator on Jan 18, 2017 16:59:25 GMT
Wooden guns:
True: apparently
In the beginning of the war the Canadian government facing the Battle of the Atlantic started a small ship program in which many Corvettes were built; what the country lacked at the time was sufficient guns to arm them with.
Lots of depth charges, guns not so much.
A work around was found by placing a circular piece of lumber in the empty gun mount to resemble a 4inch naval gun - this a stop-gap measure until the ship reached England to be properly outfitted. The downside was many of these wooden 'guns' tended to warp during the Atlantic crossing prompting one British Captain to send a message to HMCS Alberni asking "What are you going to do if you encounter a surface raider, beat it over the head?'