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Originally Posted by CCIP
Most capital ships in that period actually had torpedo tubes. I don't believe Bismarck carried any, but Tirpitz, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were all equipped with them for example.
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Hood was actually a WWI-era ship, and literally all of the capital ships built between 1890 and 1930 had torpedo tubes.
At least one source indicates that the tubes were removed in the 1930s.