 Her crew promptly brought up ammunition to her guns and the ship opened fire.The first shot from "Avocet"s starboard 3 in (76.2 mm) gun scored a direct hit on a Nakajima B5N2 ("Kate") carrier attack plane that had just scored a torpedo hit on the battleship , moored nearby.The "Kate", from the aircraft carrier 's air group, caught fire, slanted down from the sky, and crashed on the grounds of the naval hospital, one of five such planes lost by "Kaga" that morning.