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Originally Posted by Mad Mardigan
If, am not mistaken... compressed air was what all subs of the day, used to drain the ballast tanks to change from deep depths to more shallow ones or, to surface.... (emergency blow would of course be called for in serious circumstances... as in taking in a lot of water from numerous damaged areas of the boat & if that continued unabated... would result in the subs loss  )
As I can recall, off the top of My head... & think am pretty spot on, I believe... in recalling that right.
So... if that was the case... then the chances of being able to surface... under those conditions... would be... nil, I'd think. No compressed air... no chance to blow ballast to surface.
Hmm... given all that... would think it likely that the skipper (or next in charge in the event the skipper was seriously injured or killed... & so on, so forth.. down the chain... ) would in all probability, order abandon, at that point... as the sub would for all intents, be untenable. Meaning, a loss.
As I recall... don't think they had rescue craft, capable of going into a combat area & doing a rescue... not like they do, nowadays.
M. M. |
When finally lost escorts, my boat did have a difficult time surfacing from 390 feet to the surface, had to really put on speed with hard rise on the planes, then when broke surfaced it took longer than usual to clear, boat lingered at 25 feet a good three minutes before finally rising out of the water.
Compressor was repaired and went to work but compressed air reserve never went above 12 percent rest of patrol, so the banks were definitely damaged beyond repair. One time wish I had external cam on, wouldve been nice to see how close the charge was. Although, Type 2 has more punch does not have to be as close to cause that type of damage as Type 95. . I had three torpedoes left, made a night surface attack later on after end around and headed home. Glad did not have to dive to evade. Fired from 3200 yards instead of 2500 make sure was not too close and had time to get away, still got chased lol but lost them in the dark.