Word: torpedoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prince of Wales was attacked by a swarm of torpedo bombers. She was hit astern, her propellers and steering gear knocked out. This was exactly the kind of blow by which the British themselves had crippled the Bismarck...
Wave after wave of torpedo bombers swooped in on the Repulse. The Wales signaled, asking whether she had been hit. Replied the Repulse: "We have avoided 19 torpedoes till now, thanks to Providence...
...Stand by for barrage,' comes over the ship's communication system. One plane is circling around. It's now at 300 or 400 yards, approaching us from the port side. It's coming closer headon, and I see a torpedo drop. A watcher shouts, 'Stand by for torpedo,' and the tin fish is streaking directly...
...torpedo struck the side on which I was standing, about twenty yards astern of my position. It felt like the ship had crashed into a well-rooted dock. It threw me four feet across the deck, but I did not fall, and I did not feel any explosion-just this very great...
...After the first torpedo, the communications system coolly announced: 'Blow up your lifebelts.' I was in this process when the second torpedo struck, and the settling ship and crazy angle were so apparent that I didn't continue blowing the belt...