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The three submerged torpedo tubes were also recovered: two beam tubes and one through the stern. The three tubes are noted as still being in place with the sliding doors in the closed position by salvage diver Frank Lilleker in Salvaging HMS Vanguard, 1958–59. A hole was blown near the stern tube door to get access to the tube, but once that was done an inspection revealed a circular flange against which a roughly shaped piece of plate was bolted, as though the tube itself had been removed for maintenance. The tube was believed to still be inside the stern, but had not been located by the time he finished his salvage work there.

To enable the torpedo to be fired from the beam, when the ship was steaming ahead a ram was first run out to cut a path through the water and allow the torpedo to clear the ship’s side without water pressure from the forward movement of the ship jamming the torpedo in the tube. These rams produced about 7 tons of gunmetal for the salvors when lifted and scrapped.