Nope - just a grunt ;’}
At least they were spared from drowning.
It only was a bad design in hindsight. At the time, it was the best they had. The dying words of the world’s first true heavier-than-air aviator, Otto Lilienthal, were “Opfer müssen gebracht werden!” (Sacrifices must be made!).
No other “conventional” weapon system ever became so influential so quickly. It was only about 20 years since the first “practical” submarine was built (almost as likely to come up as to go down) until WWI, when it completely rewrote the book on naval warfare.