Torpedo Re-Loads: How did it work?

[Local Yokel]

Yes, the photograph in Campbell is rather better, and the caption says that this is Kagero-class DD Shiranuhi.  In the Campbell photograph you can see that she is minus everything ahead of the forward stack.  If this is Shiranuhi, then she is probably shown drydocked at Maizuru following her encounter with Growler outside Kiska harbour on 5 July 1942.  Yet her TROM at the Combined Fleet site says her hull was severed abaft the leading stack, perhaps deriving this information from the postwar interrogation of Cpt Arichika Rokuji (CoS DesRon 1), so there may be an element of doubt about this ship's identity.

[bklooste]

“While we were reloading, and enemy 15.2 cm shell passed through the port machine gun mount and exploded the 25 mm m/g ammunition. Since the torpedo reloading was going on directly below this, presence of mind and calmness failed.”

Nice quote... still is this a case of not following doctrine since they reloaded under combat conditions or was the explosion before hand and affected the later reloading ?