You're probably right; and there's always the 'writer's license' angle too; Gannon does seem to make generous use of this.
I can't remember where I picked it up from, various sources I imagine, but I seem, over the years to have 'absorbed' the notion that the torpedo gyros of all participants were unreliable and so the angle was kept to a minimum. But maybe I just interpreted 'minimum' as zero when in fact it might have meant (say) 40º.
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