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Originally Posted by Kielhauler1961
Three torpedoes! You must be a Kaleun of private means to afford such expenditure on a tramp steamer. We poorer skippers can only look on in envy. 
I begrudge having to use more than one on anything - battleships and carriers excepted, they can have two to start with. My 1WO was an auditor before joining the KM.
Torpedoes are expensive and we have to account for everything to the flotilla. My crew even have part-time jobs ashore when in port to pay for the fuel for the next patrol. No home leave for them.
There is a war on, you know! 
psst! Any spares? We'll pay you back, honest...  |
Its all about striking a balance - in these unusual times, returning to base with torpedoes still on board and risking an accusation of cowardice in the face of the enemy (from some fanatic) can be more dangerous than surfacing among a squadron of enemy destroyers - at least with the destroyers there is a chance of a safe surrender . . .