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Originally Posted by propbeanie
The ship was ID'd as "Large Ocean Liner", correct? We'll look into it, but 14 torpedoes may not be out of the realm of possibility, if there was nothing onboard to help it sink, like ammunition or fuel. Ocean liners would have better water-tight security and more "floatability" to mess with for counter-flooding to "balace" things. As KaleunMarco mentions though, torpedo issues were throughout the war. They did get better, but were never eliminated. The odds of having more than one issue impact the fourteen sent though would be rare during that time frame. But we'll look into it.
Thanks for that. We'll either put a proper name to that, or just get rid of the text, dependent upon what we find...
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I had a similar experience with a large ocean liner. Four torpedoes stopped it (I got one lucky hit on the props area) and she was down slightly by the bow. Was able to reload tubes twice. Hit it with at least eight more, four in the same bow area and the rest spread down the line from there, but she never went down. Escorts kept me way out of deck gun range, but after they finally left I poured 120 rounds of HE into her, plus my remaining 30 rounds of AP, She never changed attitude, and never sank. I was PISSED! That's a lot of tonnage to waste all that armament on and still not sink.