What is in the forward torpedo room?
The forward torpedo room includes:
- Six torpedo tubes, also normally loaded
- Ten reload torpedoes in skids (trays).
- Torpedo loading hatch.
- Ladder and hatch to the main deck.
- Crew’s bunks above the torpedoes.
- Sonar equipment. Sonar can be operated from here, but there is no PPI (plan position indicator) display.
- Charging unit for the Mark 18 electric torpedoes.
- Escape trunk.
- Officers’ head and shower.
- This space has a shallow lower level that includes two of the six torpedo tubes and two of the reloads.