Foxglove's service across both world wars meant that her weapons fit changed repeatedly. An interwar yard record described a "comprehensive" armament without identifying every weapon aboard. The phrase may have been a euphemism for removing equipment the yard did not expect to find still in Royal Navy service, although that reading remains an inference. The record warns that a class's designed battery and an individual small warship's working armament can diverge sharply over decades of refits.
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Foxglove's refit records expose shifting small-ship armament
An ambiguous interwar refit note shows why an individual sloop's actual weapons could diverge from the class's nominal battery and remain hard to reconstruct.