Torpedo attack on Bombardment target

[andrewm]

While attacking a bombardment target near Fort Bayard , several of my destroyers launched torpedo's which seemed to be fired at the bombardment target, no hits were recorded though. However no ship was near the bombardment target so the torpedo's cannot have been fired at anything else

[oldpop2000]

In that same vein, why don't fortresses and bombardment targets fire torpedoes at nearby enemy ships... or do they. Many I can name had subsurface torpedo tubes and fired torpedoes.