Two decades of Royal Navy culture made small escort crews likely to attack rather than yield to a larger surface raider. Because rules alone would not remove that instinct, planners considered how to make it more useful. Discussions included adapting depth charges and mine-like devices as improvised surface weapons for an isolated escort. No official weapon is identified, and some described ideas may never have been implemented, so this is evidence of post-battle experimentation rather than confirmed fleet-wide equipment.
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Small escorts explored improvised weapons against surface raiders
Because Royal Navy escort culture made aggressive resistance likely, post-battle discussions considered adapting depth charges and mine-like devices to trouble a much larger attacker.