Actual photos damage by torpedoes!!

Vorkapitan · 05-26-07, 02:30 PM

Sea Gobs....thought you'd be interested in the actual damage size that occured from torpedoes.
I was wondering what the actual diameter size would be and these photos answer that!!

FooFighters · 05-26-07, 02:32 PM

wow

.. nice shots dude

Vorkapitan · 05-26-07, 02:37 PM

Thanks Foo....hard to believe...but true.

MONOLITH · 05-26-07, 02:45 PM

Wow.
Great stuff!

Nice find.

CaptainCox · 05-26-07, 02:49 PM

Really nice pics man...makes one wonder if that 25% torpedo mod isn't so bad after all

Vorkapitan · 05-26-07, 02:55 PM

Captain Cox,

Which 25 % torpedo mod? "Slow dieing"?

ReallyDedPoet · 05-26-07, 03:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CaptainCox

25% torpedo mod isn't so bad after all

Nice mod

RDP

bruschi sauro · 05-29-07, 10:03 AM

BELLISSIME FOTO WOW

UnSalted · 05-30-07, 07:13 AM

The difference in the torpedos that caused the damages to the ships in photos and the ones US subs used has to be taken into account too. There was a large difference even in the same "types" of US torps such as the Mark 14 prior to late 1942 and the ones passed out to subs afterwards due to switching from TNT to Torpex and the resulting 50% "explosive power" gain.

BTW as far as damages go and the extremes the game produces, this comes from a section found in Wikipedia about US torps and their problems:

"Two destroyers, ordered to scuttle the damaged Hornet after the Battle of Santa Cruz, fired sixteen torpedoes at the carrier without sinking it. In a particularly damning episode on 24 July 1943, the submarine Tinosa shot fifteen torpedoes into the largest tanker in the Japanese merchant fleet; only four exploded."

tycho102 · 05-30-07, 01:25 PM

I was thinking the same thing, too. There's a significant warhead difference on many of those.

Pretty decent tags on some of them. Some good shootin'.

daft · 05-30-07, 02:16 PM

Some really nasty looking dents in those pictures. Amazing how some of these ships managed to stay afloat.

repalankas · 06-03-07, 02:18 PM

Very good

05-26-07, 02:30 PM	#1
Vorkapitan Samurai Navy Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 594 Downloads: 1367 Uploads: 0	Actual photos damage by torpedoes!! Sea Gobs....thought you'd be interested in the actual damage size that occured from torpedoes. I was wondering what the actual diameter size would be and these photos answer that!! __________________ __________________________________________________ ________ __________________________________________________ ________ Joe

05-26-07, 02:32 PM	#2
FooFighters Grey Wolf Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 813 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	wow .. nice shots dude __________________ This forum is not the same without you Dave.. we'll miss you buddy

05-26-07, 02:37 PM	#3
Vorkapitan Samurai Navy Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 594 Downloads: 1367 Uploads: 0	Thanks Foo....hard to believe...but true. __________________ __________________________________________________ ________ __________________________________________________ ________ Joe

05-26-07, 02:45 PM	#4
MONOLITH Grey Wolf Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 997 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Wow. Great stuff! Nice find. __________________

05-26-07, 02:49 PM	#5
CaptainCox Sea Lord Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: A Swede in Frankfurt am Main Posts: 1,897 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Really nice pics man...makes one wonder if that 25% torpedo mod isn't so bad after all __________________ DOWNLOAD MY MODS HERE

05-26-07, 02:55 PM	#6
Vorkapitan Samurai Navy Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 594 Downloads: 1367 Uploads: 0	Captain Cox, Which 25 % torpedo mod? "Slow dieing"? __________________ __________________________________________________ ________ __________________________________________________ ________ Joe

05-29-07, 10:03 AM	#8
bruschi sauro Frogman Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Florence Italy Posts: 307 Downloads: 64 Uploads: 0	BELLISSIME FOTO WOW

05-30-07, 07:13 AM	#9
UnSalted Machinist's Mate Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 130 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	The difference in the torpedos that caused the damages to the ships in photos and the ones US subs used has to be taken into account too. There was a large difference even in the same "types" of US torps such as the Mark 14 prior to late 1942 and the ones passed out to subs afterwards due to switching from TNT to Torpex and the resulting 50% "explosive power" gain. BTW as far as damages go and the extremes the game produces, this comes from a section found in Wikipedia about US torps and their problems: "Two destroyers, ordered to scuttle the damaged Hornet after the Battle of Santa Cruz, fired sixteen torpedoes at the carrier without sinking it. In a particularly damning episode on 24 July 1943, the submarine Tinosa shot fifteen torpedoes into the largest tanker in the Japanese merchant fleet; only four exploded."

05-30-07, 01:25 PM	#10
tycho102 Ace of the Deep Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 1,100 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I was thinking the same thing, too. There's a significant warhead difference on many of those. Pretty decent tags on some of them. Some good shootin'.

05-30-07, 02:16 PM	#11
daft Captain Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Sweden Posts: 493 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	Some really nasty looking dents in those pictures. Amazing how some of these ships managed to stay afloat. __________________ And God said: \"Let there be Narrowband!\"

06-03-07, 02:18 PM	#12
repalankas Watch Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Valencia, Spain Posts: 23 Downloads: 12 Uploads: 0	Very good