Actual photos damage by torpedoes!!

[Vorkapitan]

Sea Gobs....thought you'd be interested in the actual damage size that occured from torpedoes.
I was wondering what the actual diameter size would be and these photos answer that!! :arrgh!:

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/4404/torpda637458r1024x768nz1.jpghttp://img175.imageshack.us/img175/174/torpdsouthlandphoto1lgego4.jpghttp://img175.imageshack.us/img175/6778/torpdamagegallgneisebrekb8.jpg

http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/1969/torpdamage80g329171024xuv5.jpg


http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/7205/torpdwva261024x768lc0.jpg

http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/4348/torpdwva251024x768kv9.jpg

http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/3407/torpdwnbr650mk23hobartpyz7.jpg

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/360/torpdtorpedohole11024x7ig0.jpg

http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/8930/torpdsmsseydlitzbatdampvm0.jpg
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/9499/torpdsecondintensifies1yf4.jpg






http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/8950/torpda1024x768tl9.jpg

[FooFighters]

wow :o .. nice shots dude

[Vorkapitan]

Thanks Foo....hard to believe...but true. :o

[MONOLITH]

Wow.
Great stuff!

Nice find. :up:

[CaptainCox]

Really nice pics man...makes one wonder if that 25% torpedo mod isn't so bad after all :)

[Vorkapitan]

Captain Cox,

Which 25 % torpedo mod? "Slow dieing"?

[CaptainCox]

This one:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=111785
Leaves big bad holes in the targets...realistic...not sure, but looks sort a what you got in them pics.

[ReallyDedPoet]

25% torpedo mod isn't so bad after all :)

:roll: Nice mod:up:

RDP

[orangenee]

Cool. Nice find!!

[Sailor Steve]

"Oh look, BIG holes!"

But note that those ships all survived with those big holes.

[orangenee]

Yeah most of don't look like they penetrated very far.

[deamyont]

Note: All pics are from the same SH4 tanker. :)

[Capt. Shark Bait]

:hmm: , goes to show that the damage might just be realistic afterall if a target doesn't sink right away, if ever:ping:

[Keelbuster]

omg - those are soo coool.

[-Pv-]

Some of those look to be from WWI.
-Pv-

[Crosseye76]

Great find ! Very interesting photos.

[Packerfan]

Great pics, thanks for sharing! :D

[FIREWALL]

I'm useing +25 mod to see how it doe's. I will report back if anybody is interesrrted.:)

[MaxT.dk]

My mod KillerSub (look in my sig for the link) makes exactly those holes! :arrgh!:

[Lagger123987]

:o BIg Holes! I don't want that on my little S boat.

[StandingCow]

I just couldn't resist...

http://www.plagueofautumn.com/images/torpcoolaid.jpg

[MONOLITH]

LOL. :up:

[Taurolas]

i think you'll find that pic 4 and possibly 5 are from damage caused to ships at pearl harbour (you'll notice the armor belt right above the blast holes) i'm sure someone posted a link several weeks ago to a site with pics from that time, if not i stand corrected...

either way.. nice pics :up:

[badaboom]

WOW!!!!!I wonder how some of those ships made it home?

[kikn79]

Here's a cool site with pictures and AARs for quite a few WW2 ships.

http://www.dcfp.navy.mil/cgi-bin/WarSummary.cgi

Chuck

[bruschi sauro]

BELLISSIME FOTO WOW:up:

[UnSalted]

The difference in the torpedos that caused the damages to the ships in photos and the ones US subs used has to be taken into account too. There was a large difference even in the same "types" of US torps such as the Mark 14 prior to late 1942 and the ones passed out to subs afterwards due to switching from TNT to Torpex and the resulting 50% "explosive power" gain.

BTW as far as damages go and the extremes the game produces, this comes from a section found in Wikipedia about US torps and their problems:

"Two destroyers, ordered to scuttle the damaged Hornet after the Battle of Santa Cruz, fired sixteen torpedoes at the carrier without sinking it. In a particularly damning episode on 24 July 1943, the submarine Tinosa shot fifteen torpedoes into the largest tanker in the Japanese merchant fleet; only four exploded."

[tycho102]

I was thinking the same thing, too. There's a significant warhead difference on many of those.

Pretty decent tags on some of them. Some good shootin'.

[daft]

Some really nasty looking dents in those pictures. Amazing how some of these ships managed to stay afloat.

[SteamWake]

Here's a cool site with pictures and AARs for quite a few WW2 ships.

http://www.dcfp.navy.mil/cgi-bin/WarSummary.cgi

Chuck

Woah check out this one here http://www.dcfp.navy.mil/cgi-bin/WarGalleryPop.cgi?id=208

Puts a whole new perspective on things.

[UnSalted]

This is the Navy's photo site for the BB USS North Carolina. Note the hit she took from a "wild" torpedo. It's the fourth picture down. It went off target when fired at the USS Wasp and hit her 20 feet below the waterline while she was escorting the Hornet in another Task Force over 10K yards away. According to Navy reports, she took that 20' hole along with 7000 tons of salt water to right a 6 degree list and still maintained formation at 26 knots. Tough old ships indeed.

It's the fourth picture down. IIRC I saw a thread about African Americans serving in WWII on ships and the photograph of the 20mm guns might be of interest.

http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/55b.htm

[U-Bones]

Damage Control Team FTW

[Weather-guesser]

Great pics! :up:

[Mudrik]

My mod KillerSub (look in my sig for the link) makes exactly those holes! :arrgh!:
Holes MaxT? I've used your mod and it blows the entire SKIN off of the ships! Very good fun once in a while to switch game play styles and really cause some destruction.

Great pics!

[OakGroove]

WWII war damage reports:
http://www.dcfp.navy.mil/cgi-bin/WarSummary.cgi

^
:arrgh!: arrrr, already been posted.

[U56_Dragon]

Great photo find.
I would not want to be on the target side...ouch!:ping:

[badb0y]

Some of those look to be from WWI.
-Pv-

you can tell from the workers' hats :o

[Harry Buttle]

Its not just the different torpedoes/warheads that have to be taken into account, you also have to look at what the target was ie BB v DD v Freighter, and you have to look at who built them and when, for example Jap freighters were poorly built towards the end of the war because of a lack of raw materials, shoddy workmanshop and hurry to replace losses.

[repalankas]

:up:Very good