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Originally Posted by Stymnus
They were talking about one commander that fired four torpedos at a ship at dock in a port and all four were duds.
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Actually this probably refers to Gunther Priens U-47 attack on the Royal Oak in Scapa Flow. If you read the account of the attack at U-boat.net I think he fired at least 6 torpedoes with absolutely no effect. The first salvo of 3 were all duds except 1 that exploded against an anchor chain! The he fired 3 more a few minutes later with no results either. Its actually quite amusing they were able to get away with this (on the surface too!). But another problem I think they had was torpedoes running deeper than they were set to run. Therefore the torps might have been scraping the bottom and got stuck in the mud.