External torpedoes

[Subwolf]

Quick question: Is it possible to put the aft external eels into the bow tubes in SH3? I know the real boats did that.

[_Seth_]

Dont think its possible in SHIII...I've tried several times, without luck...

[melnibonian]

Nope unfortunatelly it cannot be done

[Subwolf]

Irritating...when I got empty bow tubes and loaded aft tubes.

[melnibonian]

Originally Posted by Subwolf

Irritating...when I got empty bow tubes and loaded aft tubes.

I know what you mean. Been there done that

[TarJak]

Anything attached to your backside must be fired out your back passage!

Transferring a torpedo from the rear below-deck canister to the front loading hatch would have been as or more difficult than transferring a torpedo from a supply ship.

IIRC, transferring a torpedo from the supply ship required strapping numerous life jackets around the torpedo and floating it to a position above the partially submerged bow of the u-boat. The bow is raised and the torpedo is manhandled into and down the front loading hatch.

Transferring torpedos was a dangerous, time consumming activity. As the war progressed there were fewer areas where this could be safely accomplished and many boats sailed without external torpedos. In the mid to later stages of the war, the u-boats (primarily Type IXc and Type IXd2) that were allowed external torpedos sailed only to remote areas; Indian Ocean, South Atlantic, etc. These were the only ones that had any chance of safely transferring externals to the inside. "Darn those airplanes!"

[peterloo]

The boat is designed historically to move stern external store to stern internal store, bow external store to bow internal store

So, you cannot move a stern external torpedo to a bow internal store (that is not historical and physically impossible) How come you can tranfer the fish through the conning tower and to the bow side? Remember a fish is weighing more than a ton and very long

Originally Posted by peterloo

The boat is designed historically to move stern external store to stern internal store, bow external store to bow internal store

So, you cannot move a stern external torpedo to a bow internal store (that is not historical and physically impossible)

If external torpedos were in fact transfered to the bow loading hatch, they would have to have been floated from the stern to the bow as I described (above) in the transfer of torpedos at sea from supply ships/subs.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by von Zelda

If external torpedos were in fact transfered to the bow loading hatch, they would have to have been floated from the stern to the bow as I described (above) in the transfer of torpedos at sea from supply ships/subs.

That must have been a serious pain in the arse to move a torpedo like that!!

[Subwolf]

Originally Posted by von Zelda

If external torpedos were in fact transfered to the bow loading hatch, they would have to have been floated from the stern to the bow as I described (above) in the transfer of torpedos at sea from supply ships/subs.

Exactly, that's how they did it, and is very much possible. But as mentioned here the operation took a long time, 2 hours or more. Then it becomes very dangerous of course since they can't dive while moving the torpedo. And because of this, as von Zelda says, external torpedoes were not allowed during the late war, except on the boats heading for the far east.

[Sailor Steve]

On the other hand, the game lets you load external torpedoes in raging storms, so quit whining!:rotfl:

[AVGWarhawk]

You got us there Steve