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SEA => SUBS: Gato => BuSHIPS => Topic started by: Rokket on 28 Mar , 2009, 21:41

Title: Torpedo Nose
Post by: Rokket on 28 Mar , 2009, 21:41

Anyone know what the nose of a Mark 14 looked like?

All the pix I find are dummy warheads. They all have the tow ring welded to the nose.

My real question is: was the nose ring standard on all, or did the live-fire have a different nose (for contact exploder?) I've got one shot of what looks like a piece of pipe (with holes around) on the nose, which could be the contact exploder (and holes for venting water as it touches something?), but it's fuzzy and small and inconclusive.

UPDATE: looking closer, I thing the "pipe thing" is an illusion, the guy's thumb in bg!

Title: Re: Torpedo Nose
Post by: Mike K on 29 Mar , 2009, 10:27

Hang on, Rokket, I'll go thruogh my Mk 14 drawings and see if I have something useful. And definitive. I have several hundred drawings, so it may take a while.

Mike K.

Title: Re: Torpedo Nose
Post by: Rokket on 30 Mar , 2009, 01:45

Wow, you need a Navy Cross or Silver Star for your kindness and knowledge! Thanks Mike.

Title: Re: Torpedo Nose
Post by: Mike K on 30 Mar , 2009, 09:01

No problem. Mate. Glad to help.
   You're right about the lifting ring. It was a seperate piece on the warhead. I'll add a drawing, of it, to the other drawings I'm sending. It's part name is "Nose Piece".

Mike K.

Title: Re: Torpedo Nose
Post by: Rokket on 31 Mar , 2009, 00:41

I've seen a pic (reconstruction) of a torp in a crate..protective box around tail fins/props, and a big shroud around nose, locked in place with a bar thru the nose ring. Interesting! The torp must have been radically different to the Germans in the sense that the Germans used a bomb-like spinning propeller for arming...I'm not too sure how that worked.