Indeed, the Squid was a successor to another Royal Navy ASW weapon that was already a huge improvement over the depth charge, that being the Hedgehog spigot mortar.

Hence, the Royal Navy developed a deadly efficient ASW weapon to complement its depth charges: the Hedgehog spigot mortar.

The shell was safely destroyed. The 29mm Spigot Mortar device was an infantry anti-tank weapon devised by Lieutenant-Colonel Stewart Blacker in the early years of the Second World War.

Describe the scene that unfolded instead upon their landing. What is a Spigot Mortar? Explain how the Japanese would use them during the battle andMr. Mates experience with them.

An army bomb squad carried out a controlled explosion of a World War II bomb in the car park of Hereford Racecourse March 5. The Ministry of Defence said a 29mm Spigot Mortar, an anti-tank weapon ...

"A flying boxcar is a 220mm spigot mortar shell which looks something like a 50-gallon drum," explained Pfc. Marvin E McDonald of Cle Elum, Wash., a rifleman in the platoon.

The heavy weapon was the Spigot Mortar which fired 14lb anti personnel bombs and 20lb anti tank bombs. The mortar was effective up to 800 yards. I eventually became an instructor on the Spigot mortar.

The concrete base for a 29mm spigot mortar is said to be a “rare” example of wartime defences placed around the city.

Many of the OSS's weapons and gadgets were given code names, and in this case "Bigot" came from the basic operation of the weapon—a spigot mortar scaled down to handgun size.

Case in point, the Blacker Bombard, a spigot-launched mortar. “A fearful homemade weapon,” is how Thomas Roome, who during the war was a member of the Home Guard, described the weapon.