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Ridgeback · 01-10-08, 01:25 AM

A carrier was sunk with one torp. The USS Albacore sunk HIJMS Taiho with one hit of a Mk 14 torpedo.

More info here:

http://www.combinedfleet.com/Taiho.htm

The story from the Albacore side is a beauty. The TDC went tits up seconds before they were about to fire. Skipper had to do a manual snapshot - left the scope up and fired all six forward tubes from the bearings as he called them. He watched the wake of each torpedo and saw they were passing astern so he successively aimed each one a little more to the right. Only one of the six hit but the rest is history...

So yeah, E-P anything is possible!! Nice shooting there mate!!

Cheers

01-10-08, 01:25 AM	#2
Ridgeback Seaman Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 34 Downloads: 56 Uploads: 0	A carrier was sunk with one torp. The USS Albacore sunk HIJMS Taiho with one hit of a Mk 14 torpedo. More info here: http://www.combinedfleet.com/Taiho.htm The story from the Albacore side is a beauty. The TDC went tits up seconds before they were about to fire. Skipper had to do a manual snapshot - left the scope up and fired all six forward tubes from the bearings as he called them. He watched the wake of each torpedo and saw they were passing astern so he successively aimed each one a little more to the right. Only one of the six hit but the rest is history... So yeah, E-P anything is possible!! Nice shooting there mate!! Cheers __________________ "You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." - Frank Zappa