Can you imagine how many more ships would have been sunk by US forces had they had the Long Lance.
Long Lance was fueled by pure oxygen and the tanks for it and torpedo reloads were kept amidships on cruisers and destroyers.
Thousands of pounds of explosives and pure oxygen to fuel fires kept amidships.
Not surprisingly, when a Japanese destroyer went up, it was typically lost with few if any survivors.
If you go through Japanese ship losses, their detonation contributed to the loss of quite a few ships.
It was as dangerous to them as it was to us but we were replacing our ships with much better and up to date designs.