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HMCS MAYFLOWER’s Toy Gun

April 28, 2018 by Roger Litwiller 1 Comment

Two of MAYFLOWER’s crew clear ice and snow from the forward gun deck.

HMCS MAYFLOWER commissioned into the RCN on 28 November 1940.

MAYFLOWER along with sister corvette HMCS HEPATICA left Halifax on 9 February 1941 without their 4in. guns, due to a shortage of weapons. In place of the gun barrel a wood post was mounted, so the enemy could not tell that the corvettes were missing their forward gun.  On arrival in the UK, one of the wooden guns had warped during the crossing, prompting a signal from the Senior Officer ashore asking if the two Canadian corvettes “had clubbed the enemy” on the way over.

The gun barrel in this photo appears to be over-sized for a corvette and may be MAYFLOWER’s “toy” gun.

Roger Litwiller Collection. photo courtesy Ralph O’Brien, RCNVR. (RTL -ROB042)

Filed Under: Photo of the Day Tagged With: Battle of Atlantic, corvette, Gun, HMCS, HMCS MAYFLOWER, Ice, Naval History, Navy, North Atlantic, RCN, Roger Litwiller, Royal Canadian Navy, ships, Winter, WWII

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  1. John Lade says

    November 24, 2018 at 10:29 pm

    My father, HE Lade was EO of HMCS Randor in late 1939. It was a converted fishing vessel. There was such a shortage of weapons wooden ones replaced them. In 1940 he was CO of HMCS Clayoquot and saw enemy action on September 11, 1942 when U517 attacked and sank HMCS Charlottetown

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