Torpedo Availability and recommendations

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

Using Mk.10s in anything besides an S-boat is not very accurate I have not read a book about WWII US Navy subs or by any skippers that ever mentions them being used in anything but S-boats. And in real life S-boats where in very poor shape they had been bulit between 1918-1925 or so and the mk.10s where just about as old of stock. But I am 99% sure that only S-boats used the mk.10s in real life in fact i dont think that there was enough mk.10s to go around they only had enough ofr the S-boats and i dont think any Mk.10s where bulit after the mid 30's there must have been some reason they did not use them as obviously if they where better than early mk.14s they would have so this should tell you something if they did not.

Try again. Lots of fleet subs used Mark 10s in the first year of the war, especially those boats based out of Australia. There was a chronic torpedo shortage in the Navy until about mid-1943, so a lot of obsolete torpedoes, including the Mark 10, were pressed into use.

[Stealhead]

Well thats news to me. Not to trying argue but what is your source for this information as I am rather suprised that in the many books by skippers many of whom went into great detail on the enitre torpedo issue during the war none of them have said this.

[Arclight]

There's a clue on wiki:

In 1923, Congress made NTS Newport the sole designer, developer, builder and tester of torpedoes in the United States. No independent or competing group was assigned to verify the results of Mark 14 tests. As torpedo shortages cropped up (despite three shifts of three thousand workers, production at NTS was only 1½ a day in 1937, and only two thousand submarine torpedoes were built by all three Navy factories in 1942), NTS was unable to increase production, for there was no room, and they were already working around the clock, "falling critically behind schedule nevertheless".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_14_torpedo

Even older Mark 7, 8 and 9 torpedoes were still used during WWII;

http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WTUS_PreWWII.htm

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

Well thats news to me. Not to trying argue but what is your source for this information as I am rather suprised that in the many books by skippers many of whom went into great detail on the enitre torpedo issue during the war none of them have said this.

I have the entire set of WWII patrol reports, scanned onto microfilm and converted to PDF. They're now up at the HNSA's website for online viewing, BTW.