Most torpedoed ship

[John Gilinsky]

Can someone identify the ship that was

a) torpedoed the most frequently and LIVED?

attacked by ANY means multiple times and LIVED?

Thanks!

John

[Borys]

Ahoj!

Something from WWII:

http://p216.ezboard.com/fwarships1discussi...icID=8013.topic

Borys

[ionia]

Can someone identify the ship that was

a) torpedoed the most frequently and LIVED?

attacked by ANY means multiple times and LIVED?

Thanks!

John

In a WW1 context, the monitor HMS TERROR was hit by three torpedoes from German torpedo boats on 18th October, 1917 off Dunkirk but survived the hits, a beaching, a tow back to Dover and then to Portsmouth, during which she was abandoned at sea in bad weather, reboarded and brought into port for repair.

[SiegeGunner]

In a WW1 context, the monitor HMS TERROR was hit by three torpedoes from German torpedo boats on 18th October, 1917 off Dunkirk but survived the hits, a beaching, a tow back to Dover and then to Portsmouth, during which she was abandoned at sea in bad weather, reboarded and brought into port for repair.

Terror was well equipped to survive such an attack, as she had large anti-torpedo bulges. Her sister ship Erebus was attacked with remote-controlled motor boats packed with explosives, one of which mounted an anti-torpedo bulge before exploding. She also survived. Terror sank in the Mediterranean on 24 February 1941 after being damaged the previous day by Ju-88 dive bombers.

Mick

[frev]

Just read this one today - probably not the most misfortunate - but definitely a lot of bad luck:

From the Aussie Official Histories:

The story of the Boorara* is worth telling. From the

first days of the war she was in the public eye, for she was

the first object fired on by an Australian gunner. She was

the Pfak, which on the morning of the 5th of August, 1914,

tried to slip through Port Phillip Heads and was stopped by

a shot from Fort Nepean. Afterwards she was fitted

up as a transport, renamed Boorara,* and sent away in the

second convoy. Like many other transports, she was then

utilised by the Imperial authorities, and among other duties

was sent to the Dardanelles to carry Turkish prisoners from

Gallipoli. In the Aegean, on the 18th of July, 1915, she was

rammed off Skyros by the French cruiser Kle'ber; but her

bulkheads held, she was beached, patched up at Mudros,

repaired at Naples, and early in 1916 was again on active

service.

For some time she had nothing but good luck. But on the

20th of March, 1918, while homeward-bound to Austra!ia

with stud stock and general cargo, she was torpedoed in the

Channel off Beachy Head. The torpedo ripped open and

practically destroyed the engine-room, but, as there appeared

to be a chance that the ship would float, and some trawlers

came up, Captain Buchanan, after sending to the trawlers

the engineers and all hands that were not immediately required,

had his ship taken in tow and managed to reach

Southampton. No machinery, however, could be obtained

there; she was therefore made seaworthy-it took four

months-and then towed slowly to Newcastle. Before she

could make that port, when two miles off Whitby on the

23rd of July, she was again torpedoed in exactly the same

spot, the engine-room again gutted and the ship almost broken

in two. Once more, however, her excellent bulkheads saved

her. Captain Buchanan signalled to the tugs to continue

towing, and she at length reached Newcastle to undergo

repairs that took nearly twelve months. Not until July,

1919, was she again in active service, and then on the happy

task of repatriating Australian troops.

Cheers, Frev