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Originally Posted by seaniam81
I dont think a torpedo would actually get the magazine to go up. The magazines are located not against the side of the hull but in the middle of the ship. For just that reason (ok and because the guns are on the centre line of the ship too). Plus a torpedo's explosion doesn't cause much damage to a ship. It's the pressure of the water rushing back into the gap caused by the explosion that does the damage. That is what make the under the keel shot so deadly. The explosion makes a gap in the water (because water cant be compressed). Because water is more dence at a greater depth the gap collapses from the bottom up creating a "water hammer" that slams into the bottom of the ship (hopefully breaking the ships keel).
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Don't think I've ever encountered a capital ship that had a magazine explosion as a direct consiquence of a torpedo detonation.