Torpedo failures - weather related.

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Originally Posted by BigWalleye

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I am sorry if have caused offence - but you asked what my technique was and I explained it in as few words as made sense.
Perhaps I am stating the obvious but it is very simple and it works.

The only drawback is that it is better not to be too close when a ship explodes (I recently had my boat lose significant hull integrity through this) and, in the later war years when the target is armed, surface attacks are impossible so the technique only works if the target speed can be matched while submerged - and, unless visibility is very poor, it is necessary to keep the periscope down and use the hydrophones for positioning until the last few seconds before firing.

BTW I have read through the theses by David Haversham Wright and it appears to agree with my stance that weather and wave height was not the problem. This had been the initial reaction by Dönitz but it was subsequently proved not to be the case.