 The guns proved to be too powerful for "Furious" light hull, and they became available for other uses during 1917, after trials showed the ship could not handle the stress of firing.Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon, commander of the Dover Patrol, conceived a plan to mount two guns inside the shell of the Palace Hotel in Westende from where they could bombard the naval facilities at Zeebrugge and Bruges, provided that the hotel was captured during the upcoming Battle of Passchendaele.He planned to transport the guns across the English Channel lashed to the torpedo bulges of monitors.