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From submarines, sure. Not from ships. Ships launching torpedoes from tubes above water has been a thing for a really long time.
Back when battleships were armed with torpedoes in the WWI era, they were launched from underwater tubes. You really don't want torpedoes on deck when people are shooting at you.
While that’s true, that doesn’t change the fact that deck-mounted torpedos have been around a long while. They aren’t restricted to a particular ship type, nor are we concerned with US ships only. Deck-mounted torpedos have been around since at least the early 1900s and WW1, we mostly remember them from WW2 being launched from PT boats.