torpedo room

collocation in English

meaningsoftorpedoandroom

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torpedo
noun[C or U]
uk
/tɔːˈpiː.dəʊ/us
/tɔːrˈpiː.doʊ/
a long, thin bomb that travels underwater in order to destroy the ship at which it ...
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room
noun
uk
/ruːm/us
/ruːm/
a part of the inside of a building that is separated from other parts by walls, floor, ...
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(Definition oftorpedoandroomfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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People in forwardtorpedoroomthought we had struck something or had been struck by something.
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As she dived, seawater entered her engine room and flooded it along with the afttorpedoroom.
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The boat surfaced and the crew was evacuated to surface warships except for 12 men trapped in the afttorpedoroom.
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They were then placed on a raised loading skid and carefully lowered on an angle through a hatch into the forwardtorpedoroom.
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It was now impossible to eject water from thetorpedoroom.
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A third round struck thetorpedoroom, where the two fatalities took place.
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One of the submarine's torpedo tube valves stuck open and her aftertorpedoroombegan to flood.
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Then the torpedo would be pulled out of the compartment with winches and lowered into the forward or bowtorpedoroom.
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Forty-one placed in the forwardtorpedoroomand 41 in the afttorpedoroom.
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Nine tons of water rushed into her forwardtorpedoroombefore the proper valves were secured.
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One hit atorpedoroom, and another burst in the aft 47 mm magazine.
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Upon reaching thetorpedoroom, they heard answering hammer blows from inside the boat.
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Two of his original crew donned escape gear, locked out of thetorpedoroomescape trunk, and successfully ascended to the surface.
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After considerable difficulty, the system valves in the other compartments were closed, but all efforts to secure thetorpedoroomvalve met with failure.
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The outer hull merged with the pressure hull at both ends in the area of thetorpedoroombulkheads, thus the partial double hull.
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In her forwardtorpedoroom, six men remained alive.
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All lithium hydroxide canisters were brought forward, and the survivors sealed themselves in the forwardtorpedoroom.
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He then tried to secure the forwardtorpedoroomhatch.
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