Torpedo reloads provide a concrete example of treaty evasion. Some destroyers carried no reloads in peacetime, yet wartime ships quickly found room and displacement for them. Each torpedo weighed roughly two tons, so the added load was substantial. Such arrangements support the argument that treaty compliance existed on a spectrum and that designers prepared ships for rapid wartime enhancement.
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Wartime torpedo reloads reveal treaty design margins
Destroyers that rapidly acquired torpedo reloads in wartime illustrate how treaty-era designs reserved space and weight for later additions.