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Unicorn turns her four-inch guns on Chapek Point

North Korean coast watchers provoke an unusual shore bombardment by a carrier-like ship using her own defensive guns.

Notes

North Korean coast watchers at Chapek Point repeatedly interfered with Unicorn's operations. The ship answered with her own four-inch battery and silenced the position. This may have been a unique instance of an aircraft carrier conducting shore bombardment with its own guns. The action also shows why Unicorn's treaty-compliant eight-gun armament remained operationally meaningful decades after its design. A weapon fit justified for auxiliary self-defense could still support a coastal campaign when circumstances demanded it.