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Originally Posted by Brag
Historically: they loaded torpedoes at night and in some fairly rough weather
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How rough? References?
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Originally Posted by kaptain klank
didn't they have to open special hatches to lower the torps into the torpedo rooms?
it seems like rough weather would cause a lot of water pouring down into the torpedo room.....like tons of water....
also, as for loading torpedo's at night.... how would you see what you were doing at night? did they use lights?
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Yes. They had to go on deck and set up a small crane, and open a hatch big enough to allow the torpedo to be passed into the boat. It took more than a few minutes to do it all; closer to an hour.
As for lights; I don't know. I always load mine at night, but always in dead calm.