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Re: US submarine operations in the Atlantic
Posted by: ROBERT M. ()
Date: October 30, 2011 05:24AM

Hi Platon:

You have to remember that there was a shortage of submarine torpedoes during the
time all those boats were bing built on the East Coast. They all left shakedown without a full load of torpedoes and had to stop by the Guantanamo Bay torpedo shop
and the San Juan, Puerto Rico torpedo shop also. Heck, we were loading Mark 15 surface torpedoes in the After Torpedo Rooms, so the boats had something to shoot if they encountered the enemy on their way to the Pacific.


In the shop, we had to add special "side gears" for gyro setting, change the guide studs to accommodate submarine tubes. Shorter warheads were installed also. You see
the MK 14s had two speeds while the MK 15s had three speeds.

Later,

ROBERT M.

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US submarine operations in the Atlantic UBS 10/29/2011 06:07PM
Re: US submarine operations in the Atlantic ROBERT M. 10/29/2011 11:53PM
Re: US submarine operations in the Atlantic Platon Alexiades 10/30/2011 02:39AM
Re: US submarine operations in the Atlantic ROBERT M. 10/30/2011 02:49AM
Re: US submarine operations in the Atlantic Platon Alexiades 10/30/2011 03:28AM
Re: US submarine operations in the Atlantic ROBERT M. 10/30/2011 05:24AM
Re: US submarine operations in the Atlantic UBS 10/30/2011 12:10PM
Re: US submarine operations in the Atlantic Platon Alexiades 10/30/2011 02:07PM
Re: US submarine operations in the Atlantic ROBERT M. 10/31/2011 01:31AM
Re: US submarine operations in the Atlantic Platon Alexiades 10/31/2011 02:22AM
Re: US submarine operations in the Atlantic ROBERT M. 10/31/2011 03:22AM
Re: US submarine operations in the Atlantic ROBERT M. 11/12/2011 09:19PM
Re: US submarine operations in the Atlantic ROBERT M. 10/31/2011 02:53AM
Re: US submarine operations in the Atlantic Platon Alexiades 10/31/2011 12:23PM
Re: US submarine operations in the Atlantic ROBERT M. 11/12/2011 09:05PM
Re: US submarine operations in the Atlantic Platon Alexiades 11/13/2011 04:43AM
Re: US submarine operations in the Atlantic ROBERT M. 11/13/2011 07:11AM
Re: US submarine operations in the Atlantic Platon Alexiades 11/13/2011 02:11PM


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