The running fire did little harm to the retreating ships, but their stern guns played terrible havoc with the French and Russian torpedo boats, which were picked off one after another with remarkable rapidity.
The Chinese fleet lay in the harbor, and surrendered to the Japanese after several ships had been sunk by torpedo boats.
He recommends the authorization of at least one battle ship and six torpedo boats.
The present immediately effective force of the Navy consists of four battle ships of the first class, two of the second, and forty-eight other vessels, ranging from armored cruisers to torpedo boats.
I concur in the recommendation of the Secretary that the construction of 8 armored ships, 3 gunboats, and 5 torpedo boats be authorized.
To these was added the Suffren, also of eighteen knots, but only twelve thousand seven hundred tons: she had come from Brest with a flotilla of torpedo boats.
In addition there were six fast second-class cruisers, and about a score of torpedo boats.
Your majesty has been informed perhaps that I have caused the officers and men of the Fleet to believe that they will find Japanese torpedo boats lying in wait for them among the English fishing vessels in the North Sea.
My information leads me to think that a flotilla of torpedo boats is being kept ready in the English ports for a night attack on our fleet during its progress through the North Sea.
That," his majesty explained, "is the signal for a flotilla of torpedo boats to enter the harbor of Port Arthur and blow up the Russian fleet.
She has never overtaken France or Germany in the number of torpedo boats, but she now heads the world with her collection of that marvel of marine architecture--the torpedo boat destroyer.
For a long time England blundered in the same way over the matter of torpedo boats.
As a matter of fact, the building fronts the shipyard of Yarrow, the builder of torpedo boats, the maker of knives for the nations, the man who provides everybody with a certain kind of efficient weapon.
Part of the program required that 12 torpedo boats be built each year.
Yes; those, with a dozen battle cruisers and a score of torpedo boats, comprise the main fleet.
The Glasgow, Albert and the Victoria, the former a battle cruiser and the latter two torpedo boats.
Two or three cruisers and a couple of torpedo boats.
Torpedo boats can be readily discovered when a mile or more distant and, at the same distance from the light, the rays are so powerful that a newspaper can be read with the greatest ease.
These boats were also furnished with a torpedo equipment, so that they could be used as torpedo boats in connection with a fleet.
Compared with those of Great Britain and Germany, her armored cruisers were slow, none of them being capable of a speed exceeding twenty-two knots; but she had twenty submarines, forty destroyers and a large number of torpedo boats.
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