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Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Mercury Ballistic posted:

I wonder how he was able to manuever a crippled ship. Generally when the prop stops, the helm stops responding soon after.

Most tankers of that era had their machinery in the stern instead of amidships like freighters and passenger liners. Presumably the torpedo hit forward of the engineering spaces and the engines were undamaged and still running, which meant the ship could still answer the helm.

Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 14:50 on Mar 28, 2017

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