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Nuc · 04-05-08, 02:45 PM

I have read of at least two wartime accounts where this was done. I will have to look them up, but in both cases it was an all night evolution done in calm seas. The hoisting rigs were set up aft; the torpedoes (at most two) were lifted out and lowered on to the boat's rubber rafts and floated forward. The rigging was broken down and reassembled forward. The torpedoes were lifted and stowed forward.

04-05-08, 02:45 PM	#7
Nuc Planesman Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Connecticut, USA Posts: 180 Downloads: 100 Uploads: 0	I have read of at least two wartime accounts where this was done. I will have to look them up, but in both cases it was an all night evolution done in calm seas. The hoisting rigs were set up aft; the torpedoes (at most two) were lifted out and lowered on to the boat's rubber rafts and floated forward. The rigging was broken down and reassembled forward. The torpedoes were lifted and stowed forward. __________________ Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. Admiral Hyman Rickover (1900 - 1986)