Talk:Mark 14 torpedo

This weapon has a fascinating wartime history, and its problems in WWII are something worth telling and definitely something worth remembering in modern procurement, design, and maintenance. Can anyone confirm the withdraw from service date that I found? I honestly can't find it again, although I have a reference stating that a phased withdraw began in 1975. Ponches79 01:41, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nice job on the page. Now maybe I can add from Silent Victory without my head exploding over the g*d*m stupid miserable b*st*rds behind the Mk14, including a Sub Force Admiral, no less, senior SOB Ralph Waldo Christie, who was on the design team & had an Australia command in the war & who should have been publically crucified. (And I don't even know an actual submariner!)

Oh, yeah, your "out of service" date looks right. I'd have said '79, for some reason. Have you got access to Friedman's Naval Weapons? It's got every USN system in it. I think Alden mentions it, too, in Fleet Submarine. (I'll have a look in Friedman's Design & Development at my local in the next couple & see, while I'm tracking down IJA's disbelief in the numbers of Marines at Guad...)

Only one gripe: page title should be XIV. Trekphiler 19:53, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gripe noted, but the die was cast by someone before me. Note that the Mark 18 Torpedo page not only has Arabic rather than Roman numerals, it also has a capital "T". Perhaps it's time for all the torpedoes to be moved to standardized name pages. Binksternet 06:18, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, thanks for expanding the article with so much more detail. Nice work. Hope you don't mind my breaking up some of the more complex sentences containing multiple commas... Binksternet 06:24, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Blair makes it pretty easy, until you try to distill it into categories, rather than keep it chronological, as he does. No beefs with your fixes, generally; my grammar is a bit rough in first drafts... I did take out some of the detail, trying to keep only what's really relevant to the Mk14. And I only raise the 14/XIV issue (same would apply to 18/XVIII) because it's within the WP Weaps Project; maybe an appeal to that page can get this one moved to "Mark XIV". (Don't ask me how it's done...) Trekphiler 19:10, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps the 14/XIV issue isn't so important. Roscoe and Milford use the Arabic numerals. I don't have any kind of official document originals to see what the gov't called it but I suspect that both nomenclatures were used depending on which Navy department was involved. Binksternet 19:21, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]