The Hypnotic Process of Launching Gigantic Torpedoes From US Ship 

An old sailor once told me a story about his ship getting struck by a torpedo, I'll never forget the tale as he told it: "Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We'd just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin' by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and sometimes that shark he go away... but sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn't even seem to be livin'... 'til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin' and your hollerin' those sharks come in and... they rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin', Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist. At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol' fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb." I hope he's doing well.

Seems reasonable.

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Hahahahahaha!!!

Verbatim from the movie Jaws.

Me neigher!

Do you remember the old movie "The African Queen" Charlie Algood (Humphrey Bogart) says, "There ain't nothing so complicated as a torpedo".

What's the matter? You don't like the Little Crappy Ship? Lol.. What a waste of our money.

@@bcdushman the problem is inaccuracy

What happened at Savo Island?

A battle between Japanese and US forces. And it’s true. The US Navy had a very unreliable line of submarine torpedoes in the beginning of WW11. Of course the navy brass did not want to admit there was a problem with the torpedoes and it had to be the crew making the mistakes. It took a year or so to get them to fix the problem of dud torpedoes.

@@scottthomas8894 Worse we had Ignorant Commanders who believed since our torpedo's could not be a threat then no reason to take evasive action from theirs. Sad we lost submarines to their own torpedo's circling back and many aviators and seamen risked or lost their lives to then have our torpedo's not detonate on impact of enemy ships.

_World War 11 XD_

@@twddersharkmarine7774 There were 9 world wars in that short span of time between WWI and WW11. Don't you remember?! XD

You should see the Russian City Killer, basically a nuclear powered sub that carries a nuclear warhead.

Also, Tico's aren't destroyers. This kinda feels like a high school presentation done at the last minute using only wikipedia to bang that pup out...

Honest question, could this be, somehow, a classified info. I mean, this some tactical disadvantage you're talking about

@@pepeborrego8006 You can find everything I said via open sources like Wikipedia.

@@pepeborrego8006 not classified

That's why they use ASROC. More than twice the range of tube-launched torpedos, using the same Mk-46 strapped on a booster. Nowadays of course, they come in VLS flavor, which is called long-range ASROC. But i think that tubes are not completely useless. When weather prohibits an ASW chopper to fly, you still have some means of attacking a sub.

A dolphin will never protect you from a torpedo

Si vis pacem, para bellum.

As much as many desire this use of any countries tax money the world and its people aren’t all so enlightened. A very slow process in human evolution. Very slow.

I know right? gotta pad that run time.

Not that it matters, but I later learned that there vibrating dummy torpedo s. 👉🏾

I had to carry an M47 Dragon. 🥵

Agreed. About 10% on torpedoes.

You can’t launch a b2 from a ship dummy

Say that to China....