1, Depends on which BB. And frankly luck.
The damage system in the game could use some serious tweaking. 6" shells can get lucky and get a flooding hit on a battleship, sinking it in minutes, while the same battleship some other time might withstand a full hours bombardment from an entire battle group, plus torpedo hits, and survive. It's all in where you hit, and that comes down to luck and constant application of firepower.
I'm tempted to say that the best way would be to bombard an enemy battleship until it's barely moving, then send in the DDs to torpedo it. In practice even a crippled battleship usually has enough firepower to shred destroyers, and I usually use torpedos only as a last-ditch weapon.
2, You can fire torpedos manually, otherwise they tend to be fired only when fairly close. Turn on the torpedo circle (the "T" by the side of the tactical display) and assume you'll have to get well within the yellow circle before the torps get fired.
3, God knows. The official webpage for this game is a pop-up-laden nightmare and none of the links on it seem to work.
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