I agree completely with Panthercules' remarks, that you can set your own restraints voluntarily on reloading external torpedoes. I agree too with his parameters, although I've preferred to use 7 m/s winds as the limit at dead slow ahead for external reloading.
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Also, although fortunately this hasn't happened to me yet, I have decided that if attacked during the first half of the loading process I will have to stay on the surface and fight for about 4 or 5 minutes - presumably long enough in theory to ditch the torpedo and loading gear overboard and close up the hatches, etc and get the loading crew into the boat.
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This problem first arose with the late, great 'Aces of the Deep'. At the time, I spent ages trying to find out what the emergency procedure was if a U-boat was suddenly attacked while in the middle of reloading external torpedoes. I asked naval authors and ex-U-boatmen. No one knew!
Apparently no occasion of such an attack ever occurred in real life. Which shows how careful the SH3 captain has to be when reloading external torpedoes.
If anyone does know the answer to this question, I'd be very glad to hear it.
Stiebler.