The torpedoes initially had a similar system where various rangefinders, especially the fifteen-foot rangefinder above the aft torpedo control tower, and deflection sights provided data to a Dreyer table in the torpedo TS adjacent to the 5.5-inch TS on the lower deck.
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The torpedo control system was much the same, although entirely separate from the gunnery system . 8 ?30 target designation binoculars were mounted on each side of the bridge and transmitted the target's bearing to the torpedo director located above the primary gunnery DCT above the bridge.
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The next month plans were approved to increase the thickness of the main deck over the forward magazines to and to over the rear magazines; her four above water torpedo tubes and their protection were to be omitted and the wall of the torpedo control tower were to be reduced to a thickness of to offset the armour's weight.
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But the Torpedo Control Officer aboard " Venus " had made the wrong angle settings on her eight tubes, the opportunity was lost and " Venus " heeled hard over to port to clear the target area but still maintain the encirclement . " Haguro ", thinking " Venus " had launched torpedoes, altered course away to comb the tracks.
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Facilities constructed on the island included the Torpedo Control Officers School of the Portland Naval Training Center, a navy supply pier with a naval fuel annex often cited as a source of contamination for both the island's marsh and Casco Bay, and the Naval Auxiliary Air Facility Casco Bay ( NAAF ) seaplane base operated as part of Naval Air Station Brunswick from 14 May 1943 to 15 December 1946.
