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From: William Lafferty
Location: here
Email: william.lafferyatwright.edu
Remote Name: 65.24.153.131
Date: 03/31/04
Time: 10:19:57 PM
Beginning with the *Peto,* RADM William Nelson relates: The officers took every opportunity to conduct submerged approaches on shipping vessels that were encountered, in order to drill the fire control party in making torpedo approaches. These approaches were necessarily simple as the targets were on a steady course, but they did permit the fire control party to perfect procedures and did permit practice as a team. The twice daily car ferry to Ludington across the lake was attacked on each trip and "sunk" innumerable times. The rescue vessel *Tamarack* [the USCG boat that accompanied lake training missions-WL] was used for practice approaches and while this gave the fire control party practice in solving the speed and course of a zig-zagging target, the slow speed of the *Tamarack* was not much of a challenge.
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