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Originally Posted by bstanko6
Iambecomelife is correct on the many rounds it took to sink ships. Otto Kretchmer was a legend in surface night attacks, it took him over 80 rounds to knock out a tanker that was already torped!
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Somehow I doubt that those were two clean torpedo hits midships, and that the tanker was as small as 5000 tons if it can soak up that many hits. Also one has to differ between a singular exception and a general trend. And the general trend I experienced was, as said above, 3-4 torpedoes per ship or two torpedoes and over 100 shots, all of both the torpedoes and shells very good hits, were needed to get a mere 5000 ton freighter to sink. And that, in my opinion, is too much.