In WW2, when HMS Dorsetshire left Cape Town for Devonport, she was sent to help convince the French sailors in East Africa to either hand over their ships or scuttle them. Whether the sailors agreed with the Vichy government or not, sailors become attached to their ship and their shipmates and the idea of deliberately sinking her, or even handing her over without a fight is abhorrent. The French naturally resisted and sent out two submarines to teach the intruders a lesson but the captain was to crafty and Dorsetshire to quick and agile to be caught and survived. The French then sent a few aircraft out and it was in chasing those off that Vernon Brill's gun, P1, the first 4" on the port side, suffered a misfire and, instead of calling 'misfire and letting it cool, Vernon opened the breach and the shell fell out and burned his legs badly. That's how he came to be airlifted in an old Walrus float plane to hospital, as I mentioned earlier. It is when you start putting down notes like this that you realise you have a story on your hands.