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Originally Posted by Folducker
Another interesting story I recently read was about a British sub running on the surface during WWI. The Captain was in his cabin when he heard a shout from the deck crew followed by a loud clang coming from outside the ship. Upon investigation, it seemed a German sub fired two torpedoes, one passed under the sub, the other was set for “0” depth. The sea action caused it to broach a number of times. On one of those broaches, it landed flat on the deck of the British sub between the aft deck gun and the conning tower, a very narrow space and just about the only place where the nose wouldn’t have hit anything! It exited out the other side of the British sub and kept right on going. I will look up the story again, but I don’t think that after that patrol, the sub captain ever went out again.
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I have not read any books on the WWI subs. That is an interesting story and I would dare say, I would not go out again either!