Filey Sea Cadets (TS Unseen).
Outside the cadet building is this British built deck gun. It was originally part of a French ship which was captured by the Germans in WWII who moved it onto one of their own vessels.
The recipient German ship was subsequently captured by the French and the gun relocated back onto a French boat.
Before the story could become too silly, the French ship was sunk off Filey Brigg, (probably by a German ship looking for a new deck gun....), where years later it was salvaged by a local fisherman who took it into Scarborough Harbour, further along the coast.
It was given to Filey Sea Cadets & transported by Fork Lift Truck (a rather precarious & entertaining journey by all accounts) to their Filey base.
Now painted back to prevent vandalism by local youths, it was once highly polished metal & brass.
I know this because, despite the lack of a descriptive plate, the driver of that very Fork Lift Truck popped out & told us the tale!
Outside the cadet building is this British built deck gun. It was originally part of a French ship which was captured by the Germans in WWII who moved it onto one of their own vessels.
The recipient German ship was subsequently captured by the French and the gun relocated back onto a French boat.
Before the story could become too silly, the French ship was sunk off Filey Brigg, (probably by a German ship looking for a new deck gun....), where years later it was salvaged by a local fisherman who took it into Scarborough Harbour, further along the coast.
It was given to Filey Sea Cadets & transported by Fork Lift Truck (a rather precarious & entertaining journey by all accounts) to their Filey base.
Now painted back to prevent vandalism by local youths, it was once highly polished metal & brass.
I know this because, despite the lack of a descriptive plate, the driver of that very Fork Lift Truck popped out & told us the tale!
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