The 18s were actually worse, because they had a different pivot for the "vanes" to rotate on, and they would get stuck from the humidity inside the boat. They would execute their turn, and then hang there. Besides the battery, that was another item that was included in "routine" maintenance on the Mark 18 torps, of which, maintenance had just been run on the torpedo that sank the Tang...
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