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BellJack95 · 03-16-07, 05:11 PM

You are correct LukeFF. The S-class boats were too small to have a TDC installed. One key sentence from the article says:

"The new TDC, which went into the fleet boats, where there was room to shoehorn it into the conning tower, was designed for use with the 21-inch Mark-14 torpedo."

Here is the link to FleetSubmarines website for the entire article... http://www.fleetsubmarine.com/torpedoes.html

So we can expect to do it the old fashioned way in the S-boat (using the Mark-10 torpedo that only had contact exploders) and to have the TDC (with the defective early torpedoes) in a Fleet boat.

03-16-07, 05:11 PM	#16
BellJack95 Bosun Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tennessee, USA Posts: 67 Downloads: 149 Uploads: 0	You are correct LukeFF. The S-class boats were too small to have a TDC installed. One key sentence from the article says: "The new TDC, which went into the fleet boats, where there was room to shoehorn it into the conning tower, was designed for use with the 21-inch Mark-14 torpedo." Here is the link to FleetSubmarines website for the entire article... http://www.fleetsubmarine.com/torpedoes.html So we can expect to do it the old fashioned way in the S-boat (using the Mark-10 torpedo that only had contact exploders) and to have the TDC (with the defective early torpedoes) in a Fleet boat.