Questions about torepedo doors.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Alky

In real life I know nothing about subs, but I would imagine that reloading a torpedo in the tube might be troublesome with the door open. So... entire patrol??

The reference given was to the outer doors. Only the inner doors need to be closed to load the torpedoes. On the other hand the purpose of the outer doors is to streamline the hull. Leaving them open creates a lot of drag, and slows the boat down.