Tribal torpedoes against a shallow-draft transport

Tartar fired torpedoes as Japanese aircraft approached, but they ran beneath the shallow-draft landing ship; Eskimo adjusted her weapons while gunfire continued. Conflicting reports of repeated Tribal-class torpedo firings raise the possibility that crews carried and manually loaded spare weapons despite the class's single quadruple launcher. Plans show spaces where a few extra torpedoes might fit, and calm water plus a skilled crew could make a manual reload possible away from the immediate fight. That explanation could reconcile the action reports, though loading under air attack would have been highly impractical and was not standard practice. The transport was ultimately destroyed largely by semi-armour-piercing shells, while Nubian overwhelmed the sub-chaser in a surface fight lasting about twenty-seven minutes from opening fire.