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Description
A sailor needed to know what and how a depth charge worked aboard a ship assigned to protect a convoy crossing the North Atlantic. Mr. Pellerin describes what a depth charge was and how it was able to be set to explode at different depths when looking for an enemy submarine.
Transcription
Interviewer: What was the purpose of the depth charges?
Well, you . . . the way they worked, they were a barrel, and made of a steel little barrel, and it had a primer inside. And you, it had all holes in the end. Different size holes, small holes, and bigger and bigger and bigger. And If you wanted to, the depth charge to blow maybe fifty feet, well you put it in the biggest hole. You set it, you know, so the water pressure would go in and, and compress this piston and, and blow the primer, you know. And it would, you know, but if you wanted to explode underneath the sub, well you put it in the smallest hole so it would take longer to press, and it would be going down, and you know. But the, the concussion, and, them, them submarines are under pressure. It doesn't take much, you know, when something's under pressure. Well, an extra pressure, you know, cracks and breaks, pipes and valves, and . . .