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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Could sonar on destroyers also detect surfaced submarines? All destroyer sonars were mounted beneath the keel, so this should also be theoretically possible. That said, I also have to ask what specific reading and research told you this? I don't recall reading anything like that, though I have to admit I haven't come close to reading everything on the subject.
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These are just some of the things I read as im not home and dont remember the progression but basically in some combination or the other these links/readings took me to each other via searches. I couldnt find a definitive answer as to how sonar was utilized while surfaced however I found several references and pictures that illustrated the passive sonar part (dont know the technical name) that was mounted on the keel under the forward torpedo room. Here are some of the links I went to.
http://www.bowfin.org/submarine/46/83-sonar
http://maritime.org/doc/fleetsub/sonar/index.htm
http://books.google.com/books?id=7qz...arines&f=false
http://www.hnsa.org/doc/sonar/chap14.htm