My Dad was the engineering officer on a destroyer escort. DE-100. He always got a kick out telling the story about the Captain not letting anyone load their M1 rifles because he said that the Captain doubted any of the steel in the ship would stop one of the bullets if it went off...Dad said the good part was that they didn't think that there was enough steel to set off an armour piercing shell from another ship either. It should just blow right on through.
Those guys were a different breed.
