Originally Posted by MontyB

Was it the Whiskey or Foxtrot class that was easy to find as they were generally surfaced while they put out the fires?

"Whiskey on the rocks" was temporarily a popular drink in Sweden during the incident.

Originally Posted by George

"Whiskey on the rocks" was temporarily a popular drink in Sweden during the incident.

Yes, and it still is.

Originally Posted by I3BrigPvSk

Yes, and it still is.

Was it before, or as a result of publicity from the grounding?

Originally Posted by lljadw

Was it possible in peace time to know that weapons would fail in war time and was it possible in peace time to improve these weapons so that they would not fail in war time ? It is questionable that testing in peace time would reveal shortcomings in war time .

Apparently not actually tested. After receiving many complaints of solid straight on hits failing to detonate they started testing. I seem to remember seeing this in a film or movie where they hoisted a torpedo on a crane and dropped it on its nose, damage would have prevented detonation. They then took a sub and fired at a cliff face in Hawaii. Those fired at a fairly straight on angle failed, only those fire at low degree of angle detonated. They recovered the failed ones and found simular damage to the dropped one.

Originally Posted by MontyB

If we are going to discuss torpedoes I found this to be an interesting paper on the German G7a and G7e models.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthe...99&context=etd

It is a pdf file entitled: Wolves without teeth: The German torpedo crisis in ww2 by David Habersham Wright.

Hopefully the link will work.

pretty much covers the German situation.

Originally Posted by George

Was it before, or as a result of publicity from the grounding?

I would say before, but it is increased its popularity when the public learned the submarine belonged to a class of subs called Whisky.

Dardanelles, WWI not replacing the reservist crews on the minesweepers with regular sailors before the attempt to force the straits by the R. N. Battleships.

Originally Posted by George

Dardanelles, WWI not replacing the reservist crews on the minesweepers with regular sailors before the attempt to force the straits by the R. N. Battleships.

Is that not hindsight ?
And, was it possible to replace the reservists with regular sailors ?

Originally Posted by lljadw

Is that not hindsight ?
And, was it possible to replace the reservists with regular sailors ?

mistakes usually are seen through hindsight. Should have left, say one of the obsolete battleships at base and used the crew to man the sweepers.

Originally Posted by George

mistakes usually are seen through hindsight. Should have left, say one of the obsolete battleships at base and used the crew to man the sweepers.

Was this possible and would the crew of the battleship do better at the sweepers ?
And if so,would this outweigh the loss of a battleship ?
Every proposal has two sides .
Other point : did some one propose this during the planning of the operation ?