THE TUBES HAD BEEN reloaded. After the attack, Setter was taken down to a hundred feet while it was done. First the Fore Ends, the compartment where the reloads were stowed and where the crew lived, was cleared out; everything - hammocks, the long table, mess gear, boxes of stores - was shifted into the gangway and into the other messes. Then Olsen crawled for’ard over the heaps of gear into the compartment, and watched the T.I. and his torpedo men perform the evolution of reloading the six tubes. It was a heavy, complicated business, moving the torpedoes out of their racks, jockeying them into position and then hauling them by block-and-tackle into the tubes; a job that would have been difficult under any circumstances but which in that cramped space required meticulous care, a great deal
