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Originally Posted by Mouftic
Yeah, and normally frigates would have a high death rate because of the size of the ship containaing so much explosives,
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Nope. Small-calibre ammunition was in one-piece casings, and it was very hard to generate enough heat to make them cook off. Even a magazine hit on a destroyer, frigate or corvette was unlikely to make any massive explosion. Battleships were prone to this sort of thing because the powder was all bagged, and would tend to go off with one big boom.
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and even worst if the ship sank and the depth charges were not set to safe mode.
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Unless the ship was sunk while making a depth charge attack, the charges wouldn't be primed. No depth setting, no boom.