Torpedo Magnet "Record"?

[rtrapasso]

OK - here is a question that has come to mind?

What is the most "functioning" torpedoes a ship has been hit with and eventually made it back to port, or if in port, did not sink at its moorings?

By "functioning", i mean torpedoes that hit a ship and had full-order explodsions (not fail to explode, not "squib" explosions.)

Don't give example like "ship x was hit by umpteen torpedoes, but didn't sink until it was hit by umpteen plus one"... Ship has got to survive the experience without settling to the bottom...

EDIT - Oh, yeah - i'm talking real life here, not WITP...

[Terminus]

1 or 2, probably, but I have nothing concrete to base that on...

[Przemcio231]

West Wirginia?? neee to easy... it must have been a warship of some sort...

[Terminus]

And West Virginia wasn't a warship?[&:]

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Przemcio231

West Wirginia?? neee to easy... it must have been a warship of some sort...

I think WeeVee sank at her dock, so she would be disqualified...

Offhand, i can't think of anyone who took more than 2 real torps and made it out without kissing the bottom... there were ship with multiple DUDS that survived, but they don't count.

[Przemcio231]

well SMS Seydlitz was hit by a torpedo and 2 mine's + over 20 heavy shell's and she was still able to make it back to Port... i saw her pictures i think that was the badly damged warship that did not sink...

[Terminus]

The WeeVee ate 6 torpedoes on 12/7, but she did sink to the bottom of the harbour; luckily, she sank on an even keel, due to counterflooding, and didn't capsize like the Oklahoma.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Przemcio231

well SMS Seydlitz was hit by a torpedo and 2 mine's + over 20 heavy shell's and she was still able to make it back to Port... i saw her pictures i think that was the badly damged warship that did not sink...

not going for mine hits here - just torps... i have no idea what the answer is, i am trying to find out...

[Nikademus]

Seydlitz didn't hit two mines at Jutland

[AmiralLaurent]

Some WWII example.

CA Kumano was hit by a torpedo fired by DD USS Johnson on 25 October 1944 in Battle of Samar, then hit by 2 torpedoes fired by submarine off Luzon on the 6th of November (4 subs fired 23 torpedoes at her, who hit her is controversial) and was still afloat in port on 25 November when she was finally sunk by TF 38 aircraft.

During the Taiwan battle in October 1944 the CA USS HOuston was torpedoed twice in 2 days and reached Utithi two weeks later.

BB Yamato was hit by two torpedoes fired by SS USS Skate on 25 Dec 1943 and reached Truk the same day.

So surviving two torpedoes was possible. I have not yet found example of surviving 3.

In WITP I once hit the CV HMS Formidable off Sumatra with 4 or 5 torpedoes and not even try to chase it, as I was sure it was doomed. It reached Ceylon and was saved...

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: AmiralLaurent

Some WWII example.

CA Kumano was hit by a torpedo fired by DD USS Johnson on 25 October 1944 in Battle of Samar, then hit by 2 torpedoes fired by submarine off Luzon on the 6th of November (4 subs fired 23 torpedoes at her, who hit her is controversial) and was still afloat in port on 25 November when she was finally sunk by TF 38 aircraft.

During the Taiwan battle in October 1944 the CA USS HOuston was torpedoed twice in 2 days and reached Utithi two weeks later.

BB Yamato was hit by two torpedoes fired by SS USS Skate on 25 Dec 1943 and reached Truk the same day.

So surviving two torpedoes was possible. I have not yet found example of surviving 3.

In WITP I once hit the CV HMS Formidable off Sumatra with 4 or 5 torpedoes and not even try to chase it, as I was sure it was doomed. It reached Ceylon and was saved...

4 or 5 torps? With FOW on or off?[X(]

[Terminus]

Sounds like two is about the maximum...

[niceguy2005]

Was it the Nevada that beached itself at PH?

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Sounds like two is about the maximum...

i found at least one AO that survived 2 in the Atlantic. i think a couple of merchies took 2 and made it, but i can't think of/find anyone that took 3 and didn't have a bad "ending" shortly thereafter.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

Was it the Nevada that beached itself at PH?

Yeah - i'd count that as a "sink".

[Terminus]

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

Was it the Nevada that beached itself at PH?

Yup. Tried to exit the port, was hit again, and then beached itself to avoid blocking the channel.

She also took two torps, as well as some bombs.

[Nikademus]

Neveda was only struck by one torpedo but her flooding difficulties were compounded by the accidental flooding of her rear magazines + it was discovered that her armored deck was not watertight which caused slow progressive flooding to spread. A bomb hit in her forcastle blew a large hole in her side that eventually shipped water as her bow trimmed.

And yes...no battleship ever took 3 to 3+ torps at sea and lived.

[Terminus]

I thought I read in her DANFS entry that she ate two fish? Oh well, the point is moo...

[Feinder]

I can't find anything surving more than 2 torps.

-F-

[Nikademus]

surviving more than 2 was possible but since events rarely happen in a vacuum there was often other circumstances that led to the demise.