This torpedo was fixed in the rear of the vessel, and was provided with a strong screw, that could be turned by the operator, so as to fasten it under the bottom of a ship or in other desired location.
The second cord was pulled; the torpedo dropped from the spar.
This might be a Confederate ruse, possibly a torpedo might have been sent to blow them up; they were in dangerous waters.
The majority of accepted secret-service agents on entering upon their studies in Berlin, Kiel or Wilhelmshafen, rarely know enough about naval matters to be able to distinguish a torpedo from a torpedo-boat destroyer.
The officers of the torpedo station had run up the Starry Banner upon the staff, and turned upon it as we moved out of the harbor two great electric search-lights.
As we were going out of the harbor of Newport about midnight on a dark night some of the officers of the torpedo station had prepared for us a beautiful surprise.
Though unsuccessful, this was justly considered one of the most daring exploits of the war, and inspired Beauregard to ask for the purchase of swift torpedo boats from English builders.
Another brigade was landed at White Point under General Birney, with orders to torpedo the railroad track and destroy the South Edisto and Ashepoo bridges and the trestle.
The boat struck fairly under the starboard quarter, and the torpedo was exploded about 6½ feet below the surface, but it proved to be of too light a charge (70 pounds) to injure the heavy plates of the enemy.
Fickling, made an attempt to explode a torpedo against the New Ironsides.
Carlin, commanding a torpedo ram, with a guard on board under Lieut.
At the same time a German destroyer arrived, and remained close to the submarine until two other Danish torpedo boats came up, when she withdrew.
An officer on board the torpedo boat which did such good work in harassing the enemy thus tells the story:-- "It was now 3 p.
The Turks declared that the torpedo struck the quay and blew up two hundred yards of masonry.
Presently they saw a dark mass which they thought to be the submarine, and fired a torpedo at it, but missed.
A littletorpedo boat, with a crew of thirteen, dashed to and fro, firing point-blank at the enemy, and smashing into fragments the pontoons which lay unlaunched on the bank.
We had thirty yards to row to the torpedo boat, and, would you believe it?
German destroyers appeared, launched a torpedo at the submarine, and fired at her with all their guns.
In the course of her cruise she entered the Golden Horn, and actually discharged a torpedo at a transport lying alongside the arsenal.
Our ships had now to deal not only with these forts and batteries, but with drifting mines and hidden torpedo tubes.
She was on her outward voyage, and at lunch time was off the island of Crete, when, without warning of any kind, a torpedo was launched against her.
E15, for example, while trying to torpedo a Turkish ship at the Narrows,[19] ran ashore on the Asiatic side.
Fourteen of the poor fellows were killed, and not a soul of the crew would have remained alive had not a Danish torpedo boat gallantly steamed in between the submarine and the German destroyer, and thus covered the stranded vessel.
But Bushnell's experiments in torpedo warfare were not confined to attempts to destroy hostile vessels by means of his submarine vessel.
Yet the torpedo had won its place in the armaments of nations; and to-day we see all the nations of Europe vieing with each other in the invention and construction of powerful and accurate torpedoes and swift torpedo-boats.
A veritable storm of abuse and condemnation followed the introduction of torpedo warfare.
The torpedo was then slipped into the water, with the clockwork which was to discharge it set in motion.
But the clockwork had been badly adjusted, and the torpedo exploded just before it reached the ship.
And if the torpedo cannot be said to be the ideal weapon of chivalric warfare, it may at least in time be credited with doing away with the custom of cooping men up in wrought-iron boxes, to fight with machine guns.
We have been accustomed to say that Ericsson's armor-clad monitor revolutionized naval warfare; but the perfection of the torpedo is forcing the armor-clad ships into disuse, as they in their day thrust aside the old wooden frigates.
Another American, a fisherman, succeeded in getting alongside in a whale-boat, unobserved, but was driven away before he could get his torpedo in position.
About the only good result of the devastating Japanese torpedoattacks was that the Wasp’s surviving aircraft joined Cactus Air Force, as the planes of the Saratoga and Enterprise had done when their carriers required combat repairs.
Admiral Tanaka’s Tokyo Express was still operating and despite punishing attacks by Cactus aircraft and new and deadly opponents, American motor torpedo boats, now based at Tulagi.
A second torpedo struck and a second ship was sinking.
A German submarine with its deadly torpedo sent this vessel to the bottom.
If France built a fleet of one hundred torpedo boats, the Triple Alliance had to "go her one better" by building one hundred and fifty.
Finally, the steamer Sussex, crossing the English Channel, was hit by a torpedo which killed many of the passengers.
From the wake the torpedo left behind it in the water the men on the vessel saw the danger they were in, but it was too late to do anything about it.
As the torpedo came to the surface, the Sturgeon steered it to the opening in the dam, took aim hurriedly with one eye closed, and pulled at the trigger of the torpedo with his teeth.
You can never guess the terrible noise that torpedo made.
There he saw a sea fight between two of these boats; and he brought home a torpedo that had failed to explode.
The propeller of the torpedo began to revolve, and it started off upstream toward the gunboat.
The Sturgeon kept thetorpedo afloat, while the alligators towed him along.
We've come to ask you for that torpedo you found, remember?
The Sturgeon pushed the torpedo out into the current, and got under it so as to hold it up near the top of the water on his back.
Nevertheless, the alligators now trouped off in a body to the big cave under the bank of the river where they knew the Sturgeon stayed, with his torpedo beside him.
Meantime the Sturgeon had brought the torpedo to the very center of the dam, where four alligators were holding it fast to the river bottom waiting for orders to bring it up to the top of the water.
The first task was to bring thetorpedo down to the dam.
Now you give us your torpedo and we'll do the rest!
The word used by Quiroga is surubi, a large South American river fish of the torpedo family (pseudo-platystoma coruscans).
The torpedo struck the ship in the middle, and went off.
Our friend invited us to accompany him on board an old frigate moored a little way up the harbour, from which we could see some interesting torpedo experiments.
The torpedo was fixed to the end of a long pole, carried at the side of the launch.
This showed us how the chain-cable of a ship at anchor might be cut; while a torpedo boat might dash in, as she was drifting away with the tide and the attention of her officers was engaged, to blow her up.
A launch advanced towards one, when the buoy being struck by the pole, the charge of a torpedo some twenty yards away was ignited, and the fearful engine exploding, lifted a huge mass of water some thirty or forty yards into the air.
By its means, an intended attack oftorpedo vessels could be detected.
The pole, with the torpedo at the end, was then thrust forward; the concussion ignited it the instant it struck the cask and blew it to fragments.
The great torpedo tube, with all its intricate automatic machinery, had been driven violently backward and lay piled in hideous confusion against the backing bulkheads.
What on earth can a Jap torpedo destroyer want in these waters?
It is found to answer our purpose much better than wood, and is used also in regular torpedo boats.
It dashed, foaming, through the water, sheared its way through the steel meshes of the torpedo net, and struck the hull of the doomed Retvizan exactly where Oto had planned his attack.
Summing up all the obstacles to successfultorpedo attack, it may be reckoned that only one in twelve reaches its mark, explodes, and accomplishes its purpose.
Being now entirely out of sight, the terrible war-engine approached without difficulty to within less than a hundred yards of the Russian ship, discharged her torpedo with unerring aim, and accomplished her work.
Moreover it is by no means sure that the torpedo will do its work when launched at the enemy, even if it succeeds in piercing the wire net that is suspended to entangle it at a safe distance from the hull of the vessel attacked.
But he had become so used to critical situations by this time that he felt almost capable of sleeping peacefully on the "edge of the earth" with a torpedo for a pillow.
One of the other boats must have fired a torpedoabout the same time we did.
At last, under direction from the captain, the lieutenant gave this order through the speaking tube: "Have the men slide a torpedo into one of the forward tubes.
Robert Lennox 117 Torpedo Tom; or, What a Yankee Boy Can Do.
Shackleford 271 Jack Wright and His Electric Torpedo Rain; or, The Sunken City of the Atlantic.
The captain said the submarine had fired one torpedo and had missed the steamer by about ninety feet.
Children on the way to school did not go further than the quay, for back of the ship, creeping into the slip, were other ships with troops and torpedo boat destroyers and a cruiser.
On his return home he passed through the Royal Naval College at Greenwich and the gunnery and torpedo schools, being promoted lieutenant in 1885.
We were at great pains to vary the experiments by which we sought to render the electrical tension of the torpedo sensible; but they were constantly without effect, and perfectly confirmed what M.
Nothing in the torpedo or in the gymnotus indicates that the animal modifies the electrical state of the bodies by which it is surrounded.
A person accustomed to electric shocks can with difficulty hold in his hands a torpedo of twelve or fourteen inches, and in possession of all its vigour.
When the torpedo gives only very feeble strokes under water, they become more sensible if the animal be raised above the surface.
Though the power of the torpedo cannot be compared with that of the gymnotus, it is sufficient to cause very painful sensations.
In the latter case, the nerves being cut, and the brain left untouched, the torpedo continues to live, and perform every muscular movement.
We carried the torpedo with impunity between two plates of metal, and felt the strokes it gave only at the instant when they ceased to touch each other at the edges.
It is certain that the torpedo gives a long series of shocks with astonishing celerity; whether it is that the plates or laminae of its organs are not wholly exhausted, or that the fish recharges them instantaneously.
We cannot discharge at will either a torpedo or a gymnotus, as we discharge at will a Leyden jar or a Voltaic battery.
Risso, four species of electrical torpedos, all formerly confounded under the name of Raia torpedo; these are Torpedo narke, T.
This circumstance proves a great difference between thetorpedo and the gymnotus, the latter giving his strokes through an iron rod several feet long.
The torpedo moves the pectoral fins convulsively every time it emits a stroke; and this stroke is more or less painful, according as the immediate contact takes place by a greater or less surface.
Gay-Lussac made the important observation that when an insulated person touches the torpedo with one finger, it is indispensible that the contact be direct.
The latest invention in this class is the submarine torpedo boat, which, moving rapidly towards an enemy's vessel, suddenly disappears from sight beneath the water, and strikes the vessel at its lowest or most vulnerable point.
The reverse of this practice prevails when those policemen of the seas, the torpedo boats, guard the treasures of the shore.
Spencer created a spectacular diversion by exploding a Bangalore torpedo right under the German wire.
One of the other projectiles smacked the torpedo and exploded the warhead.
Then all we have to do is make the torpedo miss once and it won't come back.
Devers is liable to send another torpedo our way any second and--" Connel suddenly stopped and his eyes widened.
Over and over, Tom kept slamming the ship into sharp left turns, while the torpedo followed in an ever-narrowing circle.
But this time the distance separating them was not as great and the torpedo closed in quickly.
The Solar Guard spends a fortune to develop a foolproof space torpedo and two hot-shot cadets come along and get away from the blasted thing!
Just hang on and watch, sir," replied Tom, keeping his eyes on the scanner where he could see the space torpedo trailing them.
As Connel and Tom watched tensely, the space torpedo loomed large and menacing on the scanner, and then, as they held their breaths, it whistled past the silvery hull of the ship, with less than two feet to spare!
He should've fired another torpedo and wiped us out.
We've got to find out where thattorpedo came from.
The space torpedo had destroyed the stern of the vessel, and if it hadn't been for Astro's quick action in sealing off the aftersection of the ship, all the air might have been lost and the crew dead of suffocation.
He'll fire another torpedo and we'll be blasted into space dust!
You asked Parliament to lay down six battleships, four cruisers, thirty-five submarines, and twelve torpedo boats.
Our torpedo squadron is in position, our submarines are off the German coast.
Savathake-er rode his one-man torpedo alertly as he probed the southern bay of Ramasarett.
By neglecting the broken bottom, brown with laminaria and kelp, he missed the great, mottled tentacle which plucked him off his torpedo in a flash of movement, leaving the riderless craft to cruise aimlessly away into the distance.
On it Kirkwood had written:--"Enemy torpedocraft leaving Heligoland.
Save for rare excursions on the part of the German torpedo flotillas and the occasional "sweeps" of Beatty's light cruisers and destroyers nothing afloat was likely to pass that way.
The excitement of being able to launch a torpedo at a British ship, be she naval vessel or merchantman, was denied them.
Perhaps it was some deadly invention that the English had brought into action against the Zeppelins--a sort of aerial torpedo steered by wireless electric waves?
