What would you have done?

[Gunnar]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

yup.

I would have picked a little target that could be sunk in a single hit. tramp steamer - whatever.

It is better to get credit for sinking a 3000 ton ship than to get an unconfirmed "probable" single hit on a 60,000 ton ship.

In real life, you probably would have hit the battleship and caused minimal damage to the torpedo blister, the ship would have been placed in dry-dock for a short time, and still been out to sea again.

a tramp steamer carrying provisions of war, bullets, fuel, oil, kerosene, rubber - whatever... is useless to the enemy when it is on the sea floor.

This might prove interesting when considering the possible damage caused to a capital ship by a single torpedo....

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