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   "a425couple"  wrote in message news:n65%O.111660$WIud.98251@fx17.iad...   
   ...   
   Brent McKee   
     · Nov 9   
   It was the torpedoes fired from part of the Fort that sank the Blucher.   
   Oskarborg had multiple pre-World War I guns, made by Krupp in Germany,   
   and a pair of submerged torpedo tubes launched from a cave in an   
   adjacent island. The torpedo tubes fired Austria-Hungarian designed   
   Whitehead torpedoes also dating from before World War I. The torpedo   
   tubes were one of the few Norwegian (not Danish as I originally wrote)   
   defences that the Germans didn’t know about.   
      
      
   Ramon Ribas Casasayas   
     · Nov 10   
   Norwegian, not Danish.   
   And yeah, they had no damn idea of these. And if they knew, probably   
   would scoffed at.   
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   Those Whitehead torpedoes were effective enough in the hands of the father   
   of The Sound of Music, who was Austria's most successful U-Boot commander in   
   WW1.   
      
   https://twincitiesarts.com/2015/12/05/the-real-captain-von-trapp/   
      
   Austria controlled much of the Balkans before WW1 and had naval bases on the   
   coast.   
      
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