As I understand it, there were screw-in attachments on the torpedoes, and they attached buoys to each individual one, then floated them across to the boat.
Most hazardous. Not only from the sheer mass of the torpedoes, since they could easily crush your foot or hand if you got caught, but the rough seas and cranking the thing onto the deck and lowering it into the boat. I would not be surprised to see that boats only took on a few torps, rather than a full 10+ load.
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