Destroyer guns could be flexible weapons in coastal operations. A railway-mounted German gun would fire and retreat into a tunnel before the ship could respond. The Tribal timed the interval between appearances and saturated the expected firing position with roughly 120 rapid-fire shells in little more than a minute. A shore party later found the carriage and gun destroyed and the railway torn up. The ship's identity is uncertain, perhaps Ashanti, so the action should not be assigned too confidently to a particular Tribal.
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Countering a railway gun at Namsos
A Tribal destroyer used rapid naval gunfire to silence a German railway gun that repeatedly emerged from a tunnel to shell positions.