Sailors in action

[McCoy]

British sailors prepares sinkbombs, possible aboard a corvette, somewhere in the north atlantic.

[Brin]

McCoy,

Depthcharges........ good old fashioned depthcharges.... excellent bits of kit, provided you knew what you were doing when first installing the primer charge. The det depth was set by a simple spring pressure, to a corresponding depth you thought the submarine was at.
Have worked with a slightly updated version of these.

[Wustenfuchs]

Originally Posted by Brin

McCoy,

Depthcharges........ good old fashioned depthcharges.... excellent bits of kit, provided you knew what you were doing when first installing the primer charge. The det depth was set by a simple spring pressure, to a corresponding depth you thought the submarine was at.
Have worked with a slightly updated version of these.

Would that be like a clock spring? Set to detonate after a certain amount of time/depth?

[Brin]

Hi Wustenfuchs,

As far as I remember (or at least the ones I've worked with), they didn't have a dedicated timer as such, it was more depth (pressure) related to overcome the fuze spring tension, coupled with a form of clockspring if you like which slowly unwind as a fail safe det if the pressure didn't activate it. When discharged direct from the ship (before my time) they were fired in a spread, as it was the shock wave which did the damage and so didn't have to be to precise.

As to what type of ship it is...... haven't a clue.

[Wustenfuchs]

That's interesting! A (somewhat finicky device I imagine) main pressure sensitive spring that is depth related but a failsafe (timed) backup system. Brings the V1 to mind, as I think it had a pressure (impact) sensitive main trigger but also had a back up timer.

Would water temp affect the setting of the depth charge? A depth charge dropped off the Orkney's had to behave differently from one dropped off Cuba.

[McCoy]

Brin, a simple language lapse from my side when I wrote it earlier. It didn't feel right at all but my brain was in freeze mode plus the fact that the Swedish word for deptcharge is "Sjunkbomb" n' that translates direct to "Sinkbomb". So it didn't feel right at all but I didn't see it.

This ones on me Paul!

[cyberia]

Originally Posted by McCoy

Brin, a simple language lapse from my side when I wrote it earlier. It didn't feel right at all but my brain was in freeze mode plus the fact that the Swedish word for deptcharge is "Sjunkbomb" n' that translates direct to "Sinkbomb". So it didn't feel right at all but I didn't see it.

This ones on me Paul!

Actually, what's wrong with sinkbomb???

I think I've heard the English use it once in a old movie and it sounded right to me.

[Wustenfuchs]

Hmmmmm... I'm remembering "Wasserbomb"

[cyberia]

Whatever you call them, here's the guy on the receiving end going into action

[Wustenfuchs]

Originally Posted by cyberia

Whatever you call them, here's the guy on the receiving end going into action