Torpedo buddy?

[Sephiroth]

Alright, I had an odd issue last night. As stated in a prior post, I had managed to sneak into Scapa and sink some serious tonnage, but my save did not work out. Due to that, I did it again last night, resuming from the save prior to going into Scapa. Luckily, both BBs were there and I crept in and got into position. I fired a single G7e set to impact at 5m to the Hood between the front two cannons in hopes of blowing it up for the THIRD time.

After a while no boom, so I go to external, frustrated, and when I get to the hood I hear my torpedo. The stupid thing slammed into the side of the hood, did not detonate, and was on the surface floating but making the electric motor sound! I watch it for about a minute, then it turns off, starts sinking, and goes down through the ocean floor where my camera cannot go.

What the HECK was that!? It's like the eel was kissing the side of the BB until its battery died, then it just sunk. Needless to say I got pissed because the DDs are on the way due to the crew of the Hood watching the torpedo float around the side of their massive ship, so I hit ALT+F4 and went to bed. I may try again tonight, but I may go back to something else. getting frustrated sneaking into Scapa nightly due to corrupted saves or stupid torpedoes...