"DUE TO ENEMY ACTIO - THE STORY OF USS EAGLE 56" Topic
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| akudjinn | 14 Apr 2005 12:02 p.m. PST |
Just published by Lyons Press: Due to Enemy Action is a saga of the courageous survival of ordinary sailors after their ship was torpedoed, and the memories that haunted them after the U.S. Navy buried the truth at war's end. By Stephen Puleo. ISBN 1592287395 |
| rmaker | 14 Apr 2005 3:32 p.m. PST |
Torpedoed? How do you torpedo a boat that draws 78 inches of water? |
| akudjinn | 15 Apr 2005 6:19 a.m. PST |
More information on the title here: link and even more details here: link |
| akudjinn | 15 Apr 2005 6:49 a.m. PST |
According to the specs it had a max draft of over 8 feet: link It was sunk in the last week of the war whe the Germans had all their advanced torpedoes available to them. Or it could simply have been a torpedo set to run shallow. |
| Ken Sharp | 15 Apr 2005 7:09 a.m. PST |
It was most likely a magnetic influence detonator on the torpedo. It is not likely that it was a homing torpedo as they usually hit in far aft of their targets. Even a wooden ship has enough ferrous metal (engines, boilers, shafts, etc) to create a large enough magnetic anomally to trigger such a warhead. The description of the ship breaking in two is characteristic of an explosion well below the keel. Ken |
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