An HMS Hood Secret Reviled!!

GT182 · 12-20-07, 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Kptlt. Hellmut Neuerburg

If the two aft tubes where removed then why where tube doors still in place? The book that I use shows the tube doors still in place as of May 1941.

Ventilation, as I gets rather stuffy smellin those farts all day.

Gotta fresh air in there somehow.

USS_Trigger · 02-05-08, 01:36 AM

it clearly states the 4 above water tubes remained intact till her sinking, while the 2 submerged tubes near A turret were removed in 1937

Sailor Steve · 02-05-08, 02:32 AM

I didn't really register the title of the thread until it was revived. I'm now surprised; the existence of the torpedo tubes is hardly unknown - they were standard on all capital ships of the WW1 era.

Wulfmann · 02-05-08, 11:52 AM

Torpedo tubes on capital ships were far more dangerous to the ship that had them than to an enemy engaged, as history has proven.
Lutzow at Jutland took a good pounding and it was the hit in the torpedo room that doomed the ship causing the decision to scuttle her. Some believe Lutzow not having these unneeded TT in her design would have been the difference with her making port.

Scharnhorst and Gneisenau did not have torpedo tubes until after their Atlantic raid. Lutjens felt some simple TT would have sped things up in sinking slow or disabled merchant ships. Each then had a triple mount added to each side but no aiming device other than a simple on mount obe for close range only. Unlike most capital ship TTs which were intended for battle these were just for close range demolition. Their fish were kept in above deck lockers and had virtually no protection and Scharnhorst' were disabled by splinters in her last battle.

Wulfmann

StarFox · 02-05-08, 01:02 PM

If i remember correctly, the torpedo tubes on the HMS Hood were the main reason they were able to quickly confirm that the wreck had been found, when it was discovered in 2001.

02-05-08, 02:32 AM	#3
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I didn't really register the title of the thread until it was revived. I'm now surprised; the existence of the torpedo tubes is hardly unknown - they were standard on all capital ships of the WW1 era. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

02-05-08, 11:52 AM	#4
Wulfmann Ace of the Deep Join Date: May 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 1,010 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Torpedo tubes on capital ships were far more dangerous to the ship that had them than to an enemy engaged, as history has proven. Lutzow at Jutland took a good pounding and it was the hit in the torpedo room that doomed the ship causing the decision to scuttle her. Some believe Lutzow not having these unneeded TT in her design would have been the difference with her making port. Scharnhorst and Gneisenau did not have torpedo tubes until after their Atlantic raid. Lutjens felt some simple TT would have sped things up in sinking slow or disabled merchant ships. Each then had a triple mount added to each side but no aiming device other than a simple on mount obe for close range only. Unlike most capital ship TTs which were intended for battle these were just for close range demolition. Their fish were kept in above deck lockers and had virtually no protection and Scharnhorst' were disabled by splinters in her last battle. Wulfmann __________________ "The right to keep and bear arms should not be infringed upon, if only to prevent tyranny in government" Thomas Jefferson,; Constitutional debates

02-05-08, 01:02 PM	#5
StarFox Engineer Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Denver, Colorado, USA Posts: 216 Downloads: 59 Uploads: 0	If i remember correctly, the torpedo tubes on the HMS Hood were the main reason they were able to quickly confirm that the wreck had been found, when it was discovered in 2001. __________________ Devoted fan of the SS United States, America's Flagship! I dream of her second life....

02-05-08, 01:36 AM	#2
USS_Trigger Seaman Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 39 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	it clearly states the 4 above water tubes remained intact till her sinking, while the 2 submerged tubes near A turret were removed in 1937