Sea detail in whites...ugh. Glad I served on working ships, I think in 7 years on sea duty, only one sea detail in whites - arrival in Guam upon change of homeports.
I can think of two reasons: anti-corrosion (rust) and more probably, to make it easier to come out of the tube. It'd really suck to try to fire them, and then because it wasn't waxed, and was covered with salt and corrosion, got stuck in the tube.
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Sea detail in whites...ugh.
Glad I served on working ships, I think in 7 years on sea duty, only one sea detail in whites - arrival in Guam upon change of homeports.
Can anyone explain to us mere mortals as to why anyone would wax a torpedo?
Why do they have to be waxed?
I can think of two reasons: anti-corrosion (rust) and more probably, to make it easier to come out of the tube. It'd really suck to try to fire them, and then because it wasn't waxed, and was covered with salt and corrosion, got stuck in the tube.
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