To compensate for the additional weight, the two submerged torpedo tubes and the armour for the rear torpedo warheads were removed, and the armour for the aft torpedo-control tower was reduced in thickness from 6 to.
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The United States Navy continued filling armor-piercing shells with explosive D after some other nations had switched to TNT; but began filling naval mines, bombs, depth charges, and torpedo warheads with burster charges of crude " grade B"
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Anti-torpedo bulges were included; these provided superb protection against attacks by torpedo for their time, but due to the increasing power of torpedo warheads, proved to be deficient for when she was torpedoed at Scapa Flow in 1939.
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The rear magazine and the torpedo warhead storage magazine were protected by a total of of protective plating on all sides, but the forward magazine and bomb storage rooms only had a 2-inch thick deck to protect them.
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Between the torpedo warhead and the engine section is the torpedo compressed air flask, 6 ( or 8 in later models ) steering air bottles and the forward trim tank, followed by the control area and the pilot's seat.
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A total of 95 Navy men were lost, including two killed from an assisting destroyer when torpedo warheads on the carrier's hangar deck finally went off while they were picking up survivors from the water in their motor whaleboat.
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"There could be undetonated torpedo warheads inside the first section, which might be of interest for foreign intelligence services, in addition to parts of secret communication equipment, acoustic devices and computers, " the Interfax-Military News Agency quoted Dorogin as saying.
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The underwater protection system was constructed out of several layers : the outer layer that was between 12 66 mm ( . 47 2.6 in ) thick, directly underneath the main armoured belt, was designed to detonate the torpedo warhead.
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More than 150 kilograms ( 330 pounds ) of explosives from torpedo warheads were blown into the Kursk's second and third compartments by powerful explosions that sank the Kursk, chief prosecutor of the Northern Fleet Vladimir Mulov said, according to the Interfax news agency.
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Efforts to save the aircraft carrier continued, but when " Princeton " s torpedo warhead magazine exploded, " Reno " was ordered to sink " Princeton " with her own torpedoes . " Princeton " was the last major US Navy aircraft carrier sunk by an enemy attack.
