Re: Submarine Deck Gun... How did it work... Wet/dry?

In article <BTWBi.27511$Db6.14589@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Brian Sharrock <b.sharrock@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Paul J. Adam" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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to surface about 300 yards off the target's quarter, and strong men were
picked to open the hatches as the boat surfaced: Brown estimates about a
ton and a half of water would come in.

Although a "a ton and a half of water " seems quite a lot; it's only a
(about) filiing cabinet's worth.

I imagine that it felt like a lot if you were standing below the hatch.
Would have felt like even more to the picked team heaving the hatch open.

Another point - given the sometimes dubious transient stability of
submarines surfacing (trapped water in the casing and suchlike) - it
stikes me that even a tone and a half added well up in the boat could be
potentially awkward. Presumably arrangements were devised for it to drain
to the bilge as fast as possible..

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Andy Breen ~ Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Feng Shui: an ancient oriental art for extracting
money from the gullible (Martin Sinclair)
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