The Rainbow. A World War One on Canada's West Coast Timeline

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07/30/14: SMS Nurnberg leaves Honolulu.

08/01/14: HMCS Rainbow goes to war status in Esquimault. The British Columbia government proposes buying the submarines in Seattle.

08/03/14: HMS Algerine departs Mazatlan, observed by SMS Leipzig. HMCS Rainbow departs Esquimault for war patrol W of Vancouver. British Columbia buys the Seattle submarines.

08/04/14: Submarines sail for Canada under trials crews.

08/05/14: RCN takes possession of submarines. SMS Leipzig departs Mazatlan.

08/06/14: SMS Leipzig at San Diego. Canadians in Seattle to buy torpedos. SMS Nurnberg sinks schooner Ballymena.

08/07/14: HMCS Rainbow in San Francisco. Military planning in Victoria.

08/08/14: HMCS Rainbow off San Francisco.

08/09/14: Militia mobilized in British Columbia.

08/10/14: HMCS Rainbow leaves San Francisco waters for Canada.

08/11/14: SMS Leipzig off San Francisco. Submarines training at Esquimault. SMS Nurnberg sinks freighters Kirkaldy, Brindle Castle, and Stafford.

08/12/14: SMS Leipzig provisions off San Francisco. HMCS Rainbow meets SS Prince George off Cape Mendocino. SMS Nurnberg sinks barque Abnoba and freighter Mount Chortiatis.

08/13/14: HMCS Rainbow and HMS Shearwater arrive at Esquimault; HMCS Rainbow departs in search of HMS Algerine. SMS Nurnberg sinks sailing ship Aberystwyth.

08/14/14: Torpedoes unloaded at Esquimalt.

08/15/14: Naval reorganization at Esquimalt.

08/16/14: SMS Nurnberg captures SS Prince Rupert in Chatham Sound and starts upriver to Anyox. Submarine training exercises at Esquimault.

08/16/14, 1730: SMS Nurnberg destroys tug Pyrite and barge.

08/16/14, 1750: SMS Nurnberg reaches Anyox. The Brave Boys set off.

08/17/14: SMS Leipzig at San Francisco.

08/17/14, 0545: SMS Nurnberg landing parties demolish Anyox works.

08/17/14, 0615: SMS Nurnberg leaves Anyox. The Brave Boys leave Lime Creek.

08/17/14, 0830: SMS Nurnberg rams SS Camosun and runs aground.

08/17/14, 1000: The Brave Boys meet a grizzly bear.

08/17/14, 1200: The Brave Boys escape from the bear. SMS Nurnberg floats free.

08/17/14, 1430: The Brave Boys are picked up by a canoe.

08/17/14, 1800: SMS Nurnberg and Prince Rupert arrive off Prince Rupert.

08/17/14, 1730?: The Brave Boys reach Alyansh. Alyansh telegraphs Prince Rupert. Prince Rupert telegraphs Vancouver. SMS Nurnberg cuts telegraph, phone, radio.

08/17/14, 1830?: SMS Nurnberg landing parties demolish railroad bridge, radio station.

08/17/14, 1845?: SMS Nurnberg and Prince Rupert attack ships at Prince Rupert.

08/17/14, 1935: Prince Rupert captures HMCGS Galiano at Prince Rupert.

08/17/14, 1950: Prince Rupert reaches Prince Rupert docks.

08/17/14, 2000: Prince Rupert reacts to German attack.

08/17/14, 2010: Germans land prisoners at Prince Rupert.

08/17/14, 2035: Germans destroy drydock and start fires at Prince Rupert.

08/17/14, 2050: German ships withdraw from Prince Rupert.

08/17/14, 2130: Germans bury dead, scuttle Prince Rupert in Chatham Sound.

08/17/14, 2215: Radl commissioned into the German navy.

08/17/14, 2300: Attempted lynching of wounded German prisoners at Prince Rupert.

08/18/14, 0110: SMS Nurnberg captures Princess Sophia in Chatham Sound.

08/18/14, 0730: Germans destroy sawmill and pulp mill at Swanson Bay.

08/18/14, 0800: German attacks reported to Esquimault. More work on submarines.

08/18/14, 1100: HMCS Rainbow departs Esquimault for the Inner Passage.

08/18/14, 1300?: SMS Nurnberg encounters Penang Maru in Troupe Channel.
 
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    Aug 18, 1900 hours, Premier’s office, Legislature, Victoria.

    NSHQ CANADA TO RNHQ HONG KONG GERMAN RAIDER ACTIVE ON WEST COAST OF CANADA STOP REQUEST ANY AVAILABLE NAVAL FORCES TO ASSIST STOP

    RNHQ HONG KONG TO NSHQ CANADA ALL NAVAL UNITS IN PACIFIC OCCUPIED CONVOY ESCORT CAPTURING GERMAN COLONIES SEARCHING FOR GERMAN EAST ASIATIC SQUADRON MAIN FORCE STOP HMS NEWCASTLE UNDER ORDERS TO ESQUIMALT EXPECTED ARRIVAL AUG 30 STOP

    Captain Trousdale RNO and Premier McBride contemplated the decoded message.

    McBride had summoned the editors of Victoria’s two competing daily papers, and had secured a promise not to report on the events up north, for the time being, in order to stave off wholesale panic.

    “I am moved by your appeal to patriotism and the preservation of military secrets,” said the editor of the Daily Colonist, “but still I am only doing this as a personal favour, Sir Richard.”

    “I am only agreeing because my erstwhile colleague agreed first,” the editor of the Chronicle said. The two newspapermen looked daggers at each other. “But you must know that the rumours are flying. By withholding information, you only give space for the wildest of fancies to take hold.”

    “I am aware of that,” said McBride. “I personally know of a good family who have decamped from their fine house in Fairfield and taken up residence in the family crypt in Ross Bay Cemetery, reasoning that it will make a superior shelter during the bombardment. We are crawling into our own graves.”

    “There is at this very moment an ornery crowd milling in front of the German Consulate,” said the editor of the Chronicle.

    “Former Consulate,” said the editor of the Colonist sarcastically. “Everyone knows that office was closed with the declaration of War.”

    “Certainly,” snapped the editor of the Chronicle. “Everyone except that mob. That God-fearing patriotic mob.”

    “They will put the place to the torch for King and Country, and then loot the nearest liquor dispensary. I have a reporter dogging them already.”

    “Myself as well.”

    “Thank you, gentlemen,” said McBride, escorting them to the door and sending them off with vigorous handshakes.

    “They are right of course,” said Trousdale after the newspapermen had left.

    “Of course!” said McBride. “But what are we to say? In the papers? HMCS Rainbow traveling up Inside Passage at this moment to keep you safe and sound? Any concrete statement we could possibly make is an actual military secret!” McBride took a crystal decanter from atop a credenza and poured two generous glasses of Scotch whiskey. He handed one to Trousdale.

    “Thank you,” said Trousdale. The men each took a deep swallow. “Be vague, but reassuring. And uplifting. ‘Hospital ship dispatched to northern waters,’ that kind of thing. You are the orator, Mr. Premier. The newspapers can write inspiring editorials, to smooth over the shortage of information. I know that the Chronicle supports the other party, but if there ever was a time for unity, it is now.”

    “Something will need to be said by tomorrow morning,” replied McBride. “I will have to write some barnburner of a speech. I won’t be sleeping in any case. I must say, Captain, that I have utter confidence in the navy. Despite your woeful lack of resources, I know that your men are outstanding.”

    “Sir,” replied Trousdale, bowing slightly.

    “The militia are another story. I think they are fine from the regimental commanders down, but I do not have faith in the top brass. I would rather give the troops orders directly.”

    “That is what the opposition says,” replied Trousdale wryly.

    “Yes, well, they are right,” said McBride. He took another swallow. “We have on the Island two regiments of Infantry, the 88th Fusiliers and the 50th Gordon Highlanders, and one independent squadron from the 30th Horse. Most are here in Victoria other than a few companies up in the coalfields, and some small detachments guarding wireless stations and such. But how to use them? I would like to send the troops to disperse the rabble that are tearing up the downtown. But I want the people to throw flowers at the militia, not rocks. The people need to have hope.”

    “Likewise,” continued McBride, “we have the guns at the forts. Those can be heard all the way to Port Townsend. They are an impressive display of strength. But if we fire them under the current situation, in practice or even if the inspection battery fires a warning shot, we will cause widespread panic.” He poured another two tumblers of Scotch.

    “I am just an old Royal Navy salt,” said Trousdale, who paused to take a sip, “but we did read Clausewitz at Dartmouth. So… if you are going to deploy your military for the best spectacle, you have to let everyone know what is about to happen, and then deliver. You can use the morning paper to describe the terrible situation we face, and then announce our preparations. Even better, post handbills on all the store windows. Tell the public we face invasion, then parade the militia on their way to prepare to resist. Have the soldiers dig trenches or something. It won’t hurt if the regimental band is playing patriotic songs while they march past. Announce that the coastal artillery batteries are conducting practice fires, and then do it. Seeing all those gleaming bayonets and hearing those marching boots and thundering cannons will have a much greater effect on the heart than just reading platitudes in the paper.”

    “Go on,” said McBride.

    “The morning paper is the most sympathetic, so you can expect a friendly reception. The evening paper will have the advantage of being able to publish photographs of the day’s preparations. Let the editor know where to get the best shots. Perhaps feed him a few scoops as information comes in, keep most for your allied paper, but throw some bones ” Trousdale shrugged.

    “There will be a riot when it gets dark,” said McBride. “I have a sense for this kind of thing. There will be a riot.”

    “That is what the police are for,” said Trousdale. “But the German community of Victoria may have to be of service as a safety valve. That is a sacrifice they can make for the greater good.”

    McBride raised his eyebrows and took another swallow of Scotch. “I see you read Machiavelli at Dartmouth as well.”
     
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    Aug 18, 2000 hours, SMS Leipzig, San Francisco.

    Later, at the German consulate, Haun and his executive officer met with the Naval Intelligence officer to get the latest known disposition of German naval forces in the Pacific. Of the Nürnberg, the intelligence officer had heard nothing since the declaration of war on the 4th of August. She had been ordered to meet with the German Trade Commissioner in the remote inlet of Barclay Sound on Vancouver Island, but no date had been set for the rendezvous. Despite frequent sightings of her being reported all over the west coast and beyond, some of which were planted by German Naval intelligence itself, the Naval Intelligence officer had no bona fide position for her.

    Von Spee’s main force, with the armoured cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, in company with a fleet of colliers and auxiliaries, were in the far western Pacific and expected to arrive at the German colony of Eniwtok tomorrow. The light cruiser Emden had been detached as a commerce raider and was headed for the Indian Ocean. The light cruiser Dresden had been on Caribbean station, and was currently making her way south along the coast of Brazil, catching Entente merchants when she could. Dresden might round the Horn and join von Spee in the Pacific. The armed liner Prinz Eitel Friedrich had met with von Spee at Ponape, then also been detached as a commerce raider and was headed towards Australia. The old gunboat cruiser Geier was attempting to rendezvous with von Spee and was somewhere near Celebes in the neutral Dutch East Indies, but was plagued with ongoing engine problems.

    Of the lesser ships of the fleet, the Cormoran, an old and broken down cruiser remained at Tsingtao, but had transferred her guns, crew, and name to the captured Russian liner Ryazan, which was acting as a commerce raider in the south western Pacific. The Austro-Hungarian cruiser Kaiserin Elisabeth, torpedo boat S-90, and gunboats Jaguar, Tiger, Iltis, and Luchs remained at Tsingtao, the latter two partially disarmed to equip the Prinz Eitel Friedrich.

    As the meeting was wrapping up, a clerk brought the intelligence officer a newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle. The officer apologized to Haun, and took a moment to read. “Aha!” he exclaimed. “’Hot off the presses’, as they say. Beside some very flattering pictures of you and your ship, Captain, well done I must say, we have a story reprinted from The Ketchikan Daily Miner, that is in Alaska, reporting ‘WAR COMES TO KETCHIKAN.’

    “Today, the Canadian Pacific Railway Steamship Princess Sophia arrived unannounced at the city’s wharves and delivered not her usual flock of miners and tourists, but a troop of 265 Canadian prisoners of war. The Princess Sophia revealed herself to have been taken by the German Navy, and operated as an auxiliary commerce raider delivering the captured Canadian soldiers to be interned in neutral Alaska. This caused some consternation among the local authorities, who are unfamiliar with such situations. The Princess Sophia did not stay in town long enough for this reporter to manage an interview. She was chased away by the Revenue Cutter Snohomish. This drama caused a temporary interruption to the baseball game of the home team vs. Kennicott. Game results in the Sports Section. Photo Caption: Canadian soldiers standing at attention at the Alaska Steamship Company terminal. Managing to look dignified despite their humbling circumstances.”

    “I think we have found the Nürnberg,” said Haun.

    Leipzig slipped out of San Francisco at midnight, showing no running lights.
     
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    • RelativeGalaxy7

    RelativeGalaxy7

    Hmm, potential for Leipzig herself to start kicking the hornets nest? Might not be the best time with information coming out and Allied warships moving to intercept. Although in hindsight, Graf Spee isn't much safer himself.
     
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    Aug 18, 2000 hours, HMCS Rainbow, Georgia Straight, off Union Bay

    SS PENANG MARU REPORTS BEING BOARDED BY NURNBERG AND MERCHANT CRUISER IN FISHER CHANNEL 1300 HOURS STOP

    OCEAN FALLS REPORTS ATTACK BY GERMAN CRUISERS 1400 HOURS STOP MILL FACILITIES DESTROYED SHIPPING SUNK STOP

    PRINCE RUPERT REPORTS TELEGRAPH TEMPORARY REPAIRS EFFECTED PORT FACILITIES AND RAIL BRIDGE BURNED MANY SHIPS IN HARBOUR SUNK NO COAL AVAILABLE FOR REPLENISHMENT STOP SS PRINCESS SOPHIA OVERDUE WITH MILITIA GARRISON ABOARD STOP

    HOSPITAL SHIP SS PRINCE GEORGE ORDERED TO SWANSON BAY 1330 HOURS TO TREAT WOUNDED STOP

    USRC SNOHOMISH REPORTS CHASING GERMAN MERCHANT CRUISER FROM KETCHIKAN HARBOUR STOP US GOVERNMENT HAS INTERNED 265 MILITIA INFANTRY POWS UNLOADED IN TOWN STOP

    The afternoon had continued much as the morning, sunny with a breeze. Brown’s mood was buoyed by the sunshine, even as the bad news piled up. He had completed his watch, and had tried to nap, but was too excited to sleep. With Commander Hose’s permission, he observed the crew of the Rainbow’s wheelhouse performing their duties. He was still, after all, a trainee. Most of Rainbow’s crew were trainees.

    After Rainbow passed the farm-draped hills of Denman Island, they could see the coal wharf at Union Bay, lined with ocean going ships. Here the coal from the mines at Cumberland was loaded as fuel or cargo. Then they passed Cape Lazo to port, with its Dominion Wireless Station masts towering above the stunted trees on the cape. To the east, across the strait, was Texada Island and the rich copper mines at Van Anda. Rainbow continued North. The sky began to light up red to the west, over the silhouetted mountains of Vancouver Island.

    “We would be best advised to pass through the Seymour Narrows, and around Ripple Rock, in daylight and at slack high tide,” said Commander Hose. “We can wait for neither. Our urgency is too great. But at least we seemed to have timed it right to hit only an hour past slack low tide.”

    The light faded as Rainbow steamed north. By 2200 hours it had become fully dark. Cape Mudge Lighthouse, on the southern tip of Quadra Island, marked the entrance to The Inside Passage route through Seymour Narrows. The lights of the fishing town of Campbell River shone cheerily to the west. Another half hour brought the Rainbow right to Seymour Narrows. True to its name, the passage narrowed to 500 yards. Rainbow turned on her powerful searchlights, one atop the open bridge and two on the aft bridge wings. The searchlights illuminated cliffs lining the west side of the narrows, small Maude Island, and the shore of Quadra Island to the east.

    The searchlights lingered on the surface of the channel.

    “At full flood the tide running through here can reach 15 knots,” said Hose. “Rainbow would be unable to make headway against that. Or running with the tide we could do better than 30 knots. Imagine! I would reckon it is running at around 7 knots against us now. Helm. Keep us as close to the east side of the channel as you dare. Starboard, that’s right.” The trees to starboard got very close.

    In the searchlight beams the dark water flowed towards Rainbow like a river. A standing wave rose from the stream to left of center, crowned with a white fringe. Around this wave, the water swirled and churned. As a child, Brown had gone with his parents to visit Niagara Falls. He had stared for ages at the pool directly under the falls, fascinated at the immense power and seemingly infinite variability of the turbulence. The water running through Seymour Narrows was just like that.

    “Keep her more to starboard,” ordered Hose. “We are steaming past a submerged mountain. At low tide the peak is 9 feet below the surface. We draw 17 and a half feet.” A whirlpool formed just off the bow. Then it was quickly replaced by a great upwelling of foam, and two other counter-rotating whirlpools formed a short distance away. The Rainbow fishtailed, like an automobile on an icy road.

    “All Ahead Full!” ordered Hose, suppressing all but the faintest trace of alarm in his voice.

    As a bridge officer, Brown knew that All Ahead Full was a risky proposition on the Rainbow, and only to be used in the most dire of situations. The old triple expansion engines were no longer up to the strain. Rainbow dug in her stern and made greater headway, but she was handling more like a canoe running whitewater rapids than a cruiser. It seemed like the transit of the narrows was taking forever. Then, they were through, and the maelstrom fell astern.

    “Ahead three quarters,” ordered Hose. He sighed and relaxed his stance. “At least now I don’t have to tell Esquimalt I sank their only warship.” Rainbow continued into the night, wrapped in the glow of her searchlights illuminating her path up Johnstone Strait.

     
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    • marathag

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    US Naval Vessels have 'All Ahead Bendix' with Bendix being the Manufacturer of that Telegraph, at the end of the scale.
    That's to let the Chief know to go for max rpms and as much steam as possible, where the relief valves start to toot
     
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    Aug 19, 0015 hours, HMCS Rainbow, Johnstone Strait

    LEIPZIG REPORTED LEAVING SAN FRANCISCO AT MIDNIGHT STOP

    ANYOX REPORTS BEING ATTACKED BY NURNBERG AND MERCHANT CRUISER PRINCE RUPERT AUG 16 STOP SMELTER WHARVES RAILROAD SHIPPING COAL STOCKS DESTROYED STOP

    FISHERIES PATROL LAUNCH KINGFISHER REPORTS BEING RUN DOWN BY GERMAN CRUISER NURNBERG AND ARMED LINER PRINCESS CHARLOTTE 1500 HOURS AUG 18 4 MILES SOUTH OF POINTER ISLAND LIGHT STOP

    RANKING NAVAL OFFICER ESQUIMALT TO ALL SHIPS RIG FOR BLACKOUT AS WAR PRECAUTION STOP

    “Navigator,” asked Commander Hose. “Plot a hypothetical course of a ship leaving Pointer Island Lighthouse at 1500 hours yesterday travelling down the Inside Passage at 18 knots. When would she reach our current position?”

    There was a moment’s pause while the navigator worked his rule and dividers on the chart. “Twenty four hundred hours sir.”

    Hose glanced at the bridge chronometer. “So, now,” he said.

    “That is correct sir.”

    Hose felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. He looked up the channel, still lit by the Rainbow’s searchlights. Something felt different about the vibration of the ship under his feet.

    “Man all guns on stand-by,” ordered Hose.

    An engineering officer entered the wheelhouse. “Sir, the starboard engine is running hot. We seem to have spun a bearing sleeve on the crank end of the high-pressure cylinder connecting rod. Must have happened when we ran the Narrows, sir.”

    “What does that do to us?” asked Hose.

    “If we keep running the engine, we will destroy the crank bearing seat in short order. That will mean a dockyard rebuild of the engine, sir.”

    “And worst case, if we force it?” persisted Hose, “In a case where we need to fight?”

    “Well,” the engineer considered, “the bottom end of the rod will continue to overheat, until the rod cap deforms. Either the cap or the retaining bolts will fail. Then the high pressure piston will be driven out of the bottom of the engine into the bilge. The engine block will suffer some damage for sure, the engine room will be filled with live steam…”

    “Alright. Alright,” interrupted Hose. “You have painted a fine picture. Stop the engine immediately. Can you fix it while we are underway?”

    “Yes, sir,” said the engineer confidently. “We have the spares. Might take us two hours, on the outside.”

    “And what is the best speed we can make on a single engine?”

    “Let’s see,” considered the engineer, “3500 shaft horsepower, I would say 9 or 10 knots.”

    “Very well,” said Hose, “make the repairs, and let me know when they are complete.” The engineer turned and left the bridge. “Extinguish Illumination!” Hose ordered. “Black out the ship. Lookouts beware of possible enemy ships ahead. Helm, keep us in the centre of the channel.”
     
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    • NHBL

    NHBL

    Not a good time to lose an engine! Even lamed, Rainbow can do some damage, and it doesn't take much to end the career of a raider...
    The timeline is named after the Rainbow...but for the Germans, might there be a pot of gold at the end of the Rainbow? I doubt it...
     

    weasel_airlift

    NHBL said:
    Not a good time to lose an engine! Even lamed, Rainbow can do some damage, and it doesn't take much to end the career of a raider...
    The timeline is named after the Rainbow...but for the Germans, might there be a pot of gold at the end of the Rainbow? I doubt it...
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    Or they collide in the dark, and both go down in the channel without a trace, or survivor, leaving everyone wondering...
     
    Driftless

    Driftless

    Donor
    I'm a little unclear on the geography at this moment. The Rainbow is heading roughly Northwest, up the Inside Passage. The Nurnberg, after detouring from the Passage to attack Ocean Falls, is now heading back into the passage and heading roughly Southeast?

    This appears to be heading towards a meeting engagement, either in the Passage, or in the more open water north of Vancouver Island? Though, with Rainbow's engine problems slowing her progress, a meeting in the Strait seems more likely. Does that narrowness of the Strait, and familiarity with any islets/submarine reefs help the Rainbow more than the Nurnberg?
     

    weasel_airlift

    Driftless said:
    I'm a little unclear on the geography at this moment. The Rainbow is heading roughly Northwest, up the Inside Passage. The Nurnberg, after detouring from the Passage to attack Ocean Falls, is now heading back into the passage and heading roughly Southeast?
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    I don't think we know specifically what the Nurnberg is doing right now. They are making an assumption from the Nurnberg's last reported position, which means they dang well better be ready.
     

    YYJ

    Driftless said:
    I'm a little unclear on the geography at this moment. The Rainbow is heading roughly Northwest, up the Inside Passage. The Nurnberg, after detouring from the Passage to attack Ocean Falls, is now heading back into the passage and heading roughly Southeast?

    This appears to be heading towards a meeting engagement, either in the Passage, or in the more open water north of Vancouver Island? Though, with Rainbow's engine problems slowing her progress, a meeting in the Strait seems more likely. Does that narrowness of the Strait, and familiarity with any islets/submarine reefs help the Rainbow more than the Nurnberg?
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    I do not have a map with courses of the various ships to share. I have tried to give landmarks with times, without overwhelming the reader. Any uncertainty the reader is experiencing about the position of Nürnberg et.al. is shared by the Canadian military and civilian population.

    MapCarta is not the primary map I am using, but it is handy because it shows the location of every lighthouse.

    mapcarta.com

    Chatham Point Lighthouse

    Chatham Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Strathcona Regional District, British Columbia. Mapcarta, the open map.
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    CV(N)-6

    CV(N)-6

    Does Rainbow still have her torpedo tubes and torpedoes? They are old whitehead's, but if she meets Nurnburg in a narrow passage, they will probably be ok. Unless the were removed, there is one on the bow, stern and each broadside. A hit from one of those probably mission kills Nurnburg, even though they are obsolete
     
    Driftless

    Driftless

    Donor
    ^^^ Thanks for the link. With the many islands and channels, it does become a bit tangled.

    As I'm guessing, depending Rainbow's rate of engine repair work and Nurnberg's chosen route, we could either see an encounter in the very narrow Passage, a somewhat less movement restrictive encounter in the wider waters near the north end of Vancouver Island, or they could pass each other in the fog with no contact, but that would need to happen in more open waters - the proverbial "ships passing in the night".
     

    YYJ

    CV(N)-6 said:
    Does Rainbow still have her torpedo tubes and torpedoes? They are old whitehead's, but if she meets Nurnburg in a narrow passage, they will probably be ok. Unless the were removed, there is one on the bow, stern and each broadside. A hit from one of those probably mission kills Nurnburg, even though they are obsolete
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    At this point in her career, Rainbow has the bow and stern tubes blanked off, and two waist tubes still operational. These are described as being deck mounted, but any photo or model shows them as being above water, but below deck beside the aft bridge. There are flap type doors at that location that cover the tubes.

     
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