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I know for example of a ship that was held up for three weeks because one tiny piece of material for thesterntubewas missing.
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All five torpedo-tubes were rapidly emptied, (including a 180 turn so that the singlesterntubecould be used).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The only exception was, which lacked asterntubeand carried only 12 torpedoes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.After firing one torpedo from hersterntube, she was forced deep to evade an attacking escort ship.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The motor itself drove thesterntubeprop shaft by means of a spring steel belt and pulley.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She then daringly came within 700 yd of an escort while bringing her stern tubes to bear on another merchant ship.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.After maneuvering for several hours, the submarine was finally able to fire her stern tubes at an enemy convoy.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Soon, the submarine had two additional problems, enemy escorts bearing down on her and a torpedo running hot in one of her stern tubes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The submarine shadowed the freighter and positioned herself for an attack using her stern tubes, firing six torpedoes in rough seas for no hits.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Modern submarine bows are usually occupied by a large sonar array, necessitating midships tubes angled outward, while stern tubes have largely disappeared.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The latter have been launched in the past by stern tubes as well as by the more normal forward ones.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The submarine immediately turned her fantail toward the convoy and emptied her stern tubes, sending four torpedoes in the direction of a tanker.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Firing four stern tubes, he claimed three hits.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Five minutes later, the submarine fired three stern tubes at a group of three escorts, and the middle one disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She loosed four from the stern tubes and two from the bow tubes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A torpedo spread was fired from the stern tubes, but they all passed ahead of the ship due to an error in her estimated speed.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The submarine then fired her stern tubes at the merchant ship.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The bow and stern tubes and the aft pair of broadside tubes were above water.
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