HMSWarspite -> (6/27/2002 4:44:00 AM)
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by showboat1 [B] Lexington, Yorktown, Hornet, and Wasp suffered their worst damage from not from bombs, but from torpedoes. Liscombe Bay, Ark Royal, Glourious(?), Hermes are also good examples. Anybody got any more? [/B][/QUOTE] You mean Courageous - sunk by U39(?) in the Western Approaches, Sept 1939. Glorious was sunk by Scharnhorst and Gneisenau 1940 (May?). Hermes was sunk by a/c, although I do not know the details, so it may have been torpedoes? Generally, torpedoes will do much more damage than bombs, due to the underwater explosion. I have seen footage of a target hulk (old destroyer), hit by a single UK Mk8 torpedo. The whole ship 'whipped' in the water, literally bent up in the middle, and then down in the middle and up at both ends, before settling back. The shock loads are immense, and can do great damage to machinery, even without letting that much water in.
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