Also, while loading torpedoes into the pressure hull, U-Boat was not ready to dive in case of emergency - first, the equipment on the upper deck had to be properly stowed, external containers secured, loading hatch closed and crew got inside.Īlso, torpedoes in the external containers were vulnerable to depth charges explosions and were very often damaged.Īnd one more thing - torpedoes stowed in external containers could not be maintained and serviced properly - so there were only stowed G7a - air-driven torpedoes, which were much more resistant than electric ones. In the later years of war the stowing of the torpedoes in the external (upper deck) containers were abandoned because of allied supremacy in the air - U-Boats could not stay surfaced long enough to charge their batteries, not to mention about long process of loading torpedoes. In case of VIIC/41 it was located in the forward part of the electric motor room (which was connected with aft torpedo room). For these, the torpedoes would be loaded backwards into the forward torpedo room and carried to the aft tubes.Īll type VII (except VIIA of course) and IX U-Boats had aft torpedo loading hatch. The VIIC/41 plan I looked at doesn't seem to have one.
Roches wrote:Submarines that had stern tubes did not always have a second hatch. It's from someone's visit to the U-505 in Chicago, but it shows clips from a German film of torpedoes being loaded on a U-boat. Type VIIB and later had two external torpedoes and Type IX had 10 external torpedoes in 5 compartments, 3 aft and 2 forward. That's 3,390 lbs the American Mark 14 submarine torpedo was 1,490 kg or 3,280 lbs. For these, the torpedoes would be loaded backwards into the forward torpedo room and carried to the aft tubes.Ī G7a torpedo was 7.163 m long, 533 mm in diameter and weighed 1,538 kg (from de.).
SILENT HUNTER 3 TORPEDO GUIDE MOD
In this mod we can control rotation, raising/lowering of DF antenna, raising/lowering of flags and raising/lowering of pennants on human sub. Modifications Flag and Pennant Raising Mod.
SILENT HUNTER 3 TORPEDO GUIDE PATCH
The latest official patch for Silent Hunter 3. Submarines that had stern tubes did not always have a second hatch. Official Patches Silent Hunter 3 v1.4b Patch (Retail) - International. It's easy to identify torpedo hatches on a plan because they are angled. There were round hatches in the deck, usually angled at about 45 degrees, through which torpedoes were loaded into the sub.
Loading torpedoes into a U-boat was done by the same process used on any other submarine.
That part of the sub is out of the water when it's surfaced, of course, so the crew would remove the deck panels above the torpedoes and load the torpedoes into the torpedo rooms inside the pressure hull using essentially the same procedure they would use in port. U-boats that had externally stowed torpedoes simply had them stored under the deck, but outside the pressure hull. The flat deck of a U-boat is part of the outside hull, as is much of the sail/conning tower. You're probably aware that submarines have an inner pressure hull, which is strong and cylindrical and meant to keep out water, and an outer hull which is meant to give the boat its hydrodynamic shape.
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