Das Boot war unbewaffnet, da es auf Einladung Indiens an einer Parade teilgenommen hatte.
Details dazu von telegram: https://t.me/Slavyangrad/157454
Beginn des dortigen Beitrags von Arnaud Bertrand:
"Pete Hegseth said this was "the first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since WWII" (which is false, but that's beside the point), so I decided to look at what happened in WW2 and... this might surprise no-one: turns out the Nazis were more humane than the Americans.
Probably the most abject part here is that the warship had many survivors - 32 to be precise (-->apnews.com) - and the U.S. made zero effort to rescue them, despite it being required by the laws of naval warfare and simply being the honorable thing to do."
Even the literal Nazis, during WW2, rescued the survivors of ships their U-boats sank. It was considered a matter of basic honour."
Die dann folgende Beschreibung der Begebenheit des Laconia Zwischenfalls ist haarsträubend.
Siehe im Telegram-Link oben.