"USS Chicago Torpedo Tubes" Topic
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| Murvihill | 08 Aug 2014 8:42 a.m. PST |
Does anyone know precisely when the USS Chicago CA-29 landed her torpedo tubes? Apparently Conway's says late '42, but there is some doubt. |
 Virtualscratchbuilder  | 08 Aug 2014 10:38 a.m. PST |
Friedman says the decision to remove them was made in early '33 and put into force '33-'34, and they were removed from all the treaty cruisers by '35. However, the torpedo flats were not plated in on all the cruisers right away, and never on some. |
| Blutarski | 13 Aug 2014 6:38 p.m. PST |
"Torpedo Flat" is a British term for the compartment in which torpedoes are serviced or fixed underwater torpedo tubes are served. Think of "flat" as "apartment". B |
| CampyF | 14 Aug 2014 2:29 p.m. PST |
Forgot about that. If doing a Hector Bywater scenario, the US heavies go into battle with torpedoes. (And not the crappy WWII model). Thanks for this thread. |
| Charlie 12 | 14 Aug 2014 5:28 p.m. PST |
Well, I hope your Bywater campaign is post 1931 since the earliest CAs (and the only ones that might have carried torpedoes) weren't commissioned until 1931. |
| CampyF | 14 Aug 2014 5:36 p.m. PST |
That's when Bywater's "Great Pacific War" starts. March 3, 1931 communications with the Philippines is lost, and a Japanese ship blows up, sabotaging that Panama Canal. The climactic battle of Yap takes place November 20, 1932. |
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