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Originally Posted by tater
panthercules, I wonder about the date. If CCIP added some issues tot he Mk10s that they really had (deep running) it might reset once they figured it out in RL date wise. The Mk10s did run deep, I bet they didn't figure that out until you'd be based at Freemantle. The Asiatic Fleet subs, and the S-boats in particular had an abysmal combat record for the beginning of the war.
Just a thought.
tater
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You're probably right - found a great site with info about the torpedo problems - (see here:
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/1592/ustorp2.htm ), which indicated that the Mk 10s also suffered from some serious depth control problems, and that wouldn't have been known or fixed during my current 1941 time frame (though, like me, some sub skippers were beginning to suspect). Looks like I wasn't the only skipper who took a mixed loadout of 10s and 14s, but it looks like it probably didn't do them much more good than it did me:
Mk.14 torpedoes were, however, in such short supply in 1942 that some fleet boats loaded out with Mk.10 torpedoes...
Depth control problems with US torpedoes were suspected by the Newport Torpedo Station (NTS-Newport) and BuOrd even before the United States entered WW II. On 5 January 1942 BuOrd, based on earlier (1941) testing, advised that the Mk.10 torpedo, which had entered service in 1915 and was still used in S-class submarines, ran four feet deeper than set. ... In a mood of desperation, the operating forces made their own running depth determinations, using fishnets for depth measurement, at Frenchman's Bay in Australia on 20 June 1942. These measurements indicated that the depth errors were probably more like eleven feet.
Not complaining about the Mod's approach to the torps - looks like they got it about right - it's just amazing that something as critical to the whole submarine idea as the torpedoes could have been so neglected/mishandled in the run up to the war (by so many navies). You'd think that by the time you'd decided to spend all that money to design and build all those new subs, you would let go of a little money for some decent testing of the subs' only real reason to exist.