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From Duds to Deadly: The U.S. Navy's Defective Mark 14 Torpedo


The Mark 14 torpedo was troublesome for American submariners during the early days of World War II.
Here s What You Need to Know: Dozens of patrols were wasted, hundreds of American lives lost, and important enemy targets missed.
Lieutenant Dan Daspit, captain of the U.S. submarine Tinosa could not believe his luck. Framed neatly in the periscope eyepiece was a sitting duck. The 19,250-ton Japanese tanker Tonan Maru No. 3 was all alone, dead in the water. Tinosa was on her second war patrol, having left Midway atoll on July 7, 1943. For a week she had been prowling along the Japanese sea routes between Borneo and Truk. On the afternoon of July 24, Daspit spotted a thin trail of gray funnel smoke on the horizon. Remaining submerged, he set up a textbook approach and fired four Mark 14 torpedoes at the ship, which was making only 10 knots. Every one of his “fish” ran true. Thirty seconds later, the sonarman heard the repeated thumps of the torpedoes striking the hull, b ....

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It's Rickover Time: The Drift, S. II, Vol. XXXVI


ALEXANDRIA – Good Evening, Drifters
A friend of mine delivered something fun into my inbox a few weeks ago and I thought it was worth relaying to you. This is the special treat I have promised for some weeks now.
It’s a speech from the late, controversial Adm. Hyman G. Rickover, the father of the nuclear Navy. Whatever else you think of him, he’s one of the most remarkable officers in the US Navy’s history and fielded a nuclear fleet with an unrivaled safety record.
When he passed in 1986, then Navy Secretary John Lehman (who also forced Rickover into retirement because of his runaway power and control over too many aspect of the Navy) released a statement summing up his career thusly: ....

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