Birmingham's torpedoes in the harbour standoff

Could HMS Birmingham have used her torpedo tubes in the Tsingtao confrontation?

Birmingham had two trainable triple 21-inch launchers amidships, so their arrangement made an attempted attack physically possible.

Birmingham carried two trainable triple launchers for 21-inch torpedoes near the middle of the ship. A plan or photograph shown on screen locates the mounts just behind one of the carried boats. Their trainable arrangement made an attempted attack physically possible rather than limiting the ship to fixed forward fire. This passage establishes the number and position of the weapons, while the separate minimum-range question determines whether a torpedo could function across the harbour's exceptionally short distance.