Extra depth charges and improvised launching arrangements

Some escort commanders fitted additional launchers or rails to increase the number of depth charges they could drop in a pattern. Whether Walker used those particular improvisations is explicitly uncertain. French depth-charge chutes attracted British interest, although their drawbacks discouraged adoption. A tentative recollection describes an unidentified ship using angled wheelbarrows to launch extra charges. Aggressive commanders also found room for loads above their official allowances, but the joking distinction between magazine and deck loads does not establish Walker's actual total.