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RE: torpedos failures..?
Posted by: Joe Brennan ()
Date: December 08, 2000 02:21AM

<HTML>Hello All.

A number of U-boats had been equipped with a new type of
firing pistol with four bladed propellers which was liable to fail to
function. These torpedos with the pistol had never been adequately
tested by the Germans.. On April 20th 1940, as a result of this
accumulation of torpedos failures during the Norwegian operations,
the Commander-In-Chief set up a Torpedo Commission to investigate
the problems. As a result to the already known causes, the
Commission established the fact that the contact pistol showed
a very considerable percentage of failures due to faulty action of
the striker & the ineffectiveness of the initial charge, and that the
pistol was liable to fail when the angle of incidence of a hit was less
than 50*. The pistol had been constructed for an angle of incidence
of 21*. These German torpedos in question was the Mark G7a and
the Mark G7e
As a result of the findings, the Commander-In-Chief set up a
Court of Inquiry into investigations that led to the trial by court
martal & punishment of the personnel of the Torpedo Institute who
were responsible.


Cheers Joe Brennan</HTML>

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