""blind Submarine" Returns Home. 3 and 4 April 1943, Portsmouth, the British Submarine Ursala Which Sailed "blind" For Six Days and Nights With Her Periscope Smashed After Being Rammed by An Enemy Destroyer, Is Now Back Home." Torpedoes being loaded on board the URSALA. Despite their size they can be slung on board, slid through the forward hatch and placed in position in their tubes in a little over 5 minutes.