Group Build Description: Open to any aircraft or vessel that carried and used torpedoes as armament.
Event Details: Uh oh, I have a new campaign idea. Torpedo Away is about buiding any vessel or aircraft that carried and used a torpedo as armament. This could include torpedo bomber aircraft, torpedo boats, destroyers with torpedoes, submarines, etc. The one caveat is that the model needs to depict the subject with torpedo(es) aboard and ready to use.
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Sounds like fun.
I’ve got a lot stuff in the stash that would fit. Couple of helicopters, WW2 torpedo bombers. Few destroyers and subs lurking around.
So, mostly Whitehead Automobiles and all developments since, possibly Spar Torpedoes (deployed), but no shore batteries like a Brennan on it’s launch rail?
Cheers,
Oldie. Unfortunately ,like its namesake, On Eternal Patrol . Crush by falling object. 1/350 scale U.S Gato Class Submarine U.S.S. Dorado (SS-248). Commissioned Aug. 1943. Dorado was lost off Col’on, Panama on 12 Oct. 1943 with all 78 hands. Loss is credited to either attack by U.S. Patrol aircraft or mine set by U-214.
1/72 Finemolds. Type A Ko-hyoteki midget sub (with Type97 torpedo). 46 tons. 78 feet long. Crew of 2. Armed with 2X 450mm torpedoes. 5 Type As were launched from their “mother ships” approximately 7 hours before the aircraft attack. They were tasked with penetrating Pearl Harbor and firing their torpedoes during the time between the first and second aircraft wave. It is believed I-22tou fired it’s torpedoes at USS Curtiss and USS Monaghan prior to being rammed and sunk by Monoghan. A second , unknown sub (I-16tou?) fired its torpedoes at USS West Virginia and USS Oklahoma. 1 (I-20tou?) was sunk outside the harbor by USS Ward. I-24tou started with a malfunctioning compass and after much drama ran aground at Waimanalo Beach. PO2C Kiyoshi Inagaki drown and ENS. Kazuo Sakamaki was captured, becoming the first Japanese POW. Aerospaceweb.org | Ask Us - Midget Submarines at Pearl Harbor The nine submariners lost at Pearl are from the left: P02C Katayama Yoshio of I-20, POIC Sasaki Naokichi of I-22, POIC Yokoyama Shigenori of I-18, Ensign Yokoyama Masaharu of 1-16, Lt Iwasa Naoji I-22, Lt ( j.g.) Furuno Shigemi of I-18, Ensign Hiroo Akira of I-20, P02C Ueda Sadamu of I-16 and P02C Inagaki Kiyoshi of I-24.
Ensign Sakamaki Kazuo of I-24’s HA-19, taken prisoner, is not shown in this Japanese painting. See less
1/350 Scale Guppy II Class Submarine. U.S.S. Cutlass (SS- 478). Circa 1957. Cutlass was commissioned in 1945 as a Tench Class and completed 1 war patrol. (She arrived off Northern Japan on V.J. Day) She was up graded to Guppy II standards in 1948 , with improved sonar/fire control systems, and numerous improvements inspired by late WW2 German research. The “Northern Sail” was added during her 1957 overhaul. She served in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediterranean until retired in 1973. After being overhauled she was sold to the Republic of China (Taiwan) and recommissioned as R.O.C.s. Hai Shih… Sealion … (SS-791). 80 years later she is still on active duty.
And like my suggestion in “Bugs”, the Brennan is a bit of a wind-up… And speaking of winding, I don’t think I’m up to modelling a Brennan installation: Camden Fort Meagher 1887-1905
