14 torpedoes is only 2 more than Dan Daspit fired at the Tonan Maru #3. The first hit the propellers and disabled the ship. The Tinosa submerged and closed to 800 yards in a perfect firing position. He fired 11 torpedoes, one at a time, at the ship and all did not expolde. The crew performed maintenance on each one before they were fired but it did not help. Eventually he watched a destroyer come and tow the target into Truk.
Daspit's return to Pearl and his immediate report to Admiral Lockwood was the catalyst for the experiments that proved the torpedo, as the submariners claimed, was the problem, not the boat captains who BuOrd blamed.
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