In this situation the compartment would have been evacuated and sealed using the watertight bulkhead door to the rear of the torpedo stowage. |
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Originally intended as motor gunboats for convoy escort, they were converted to torpedo boats while under construction. |
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These colonial naval forces consisted in the main of torpedo boats, gunboats and other small craft. |
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Known by railroad men simply as a torpedo, this is a small detonator fastened to the rail and set off by a locomotive's passing wheels. |
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All the watertight doors, deadlights and scuttles had been securely closed before the torpedo struck the ship. |
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The torpedo tubes were built into the prow, with a high freeboard providing good protection from the waves. |
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Dunkerque was only slightly damaged, but was crippled by torpedo aircraft during a second attack on 6 July. |
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As the torpedo struck her forward magazine, the explosion blew away all the fore-end structure below the waterline. |
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Some of the outer plating has rotted away from the bow, revealing more of the torpedo tubes and the torpedo-loading hatches, both clearly closed. |
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I have scanned your ship, and it is outfitted with very qualified pilots as well as fairly good shields and torpedo cannons. |
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The fore and aft hydroplanes are still in position and the external torpedo tubes on the bow are a very impressive sight. |
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The auto box changes up way too early and you're left gliding around the roads in a leather lined torpedo. |
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The torpedo gives the Akula a one-shot kill capability against any naval vessel short of an aircraft carrier due to its huge warhead. |
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The charioteers were crack units of specially-trained frogmen who sat astride a 30 ft-long torpedo which they steered into enemy harbours. |
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Mines can be sown in deep water, and are propelled at high speed towards a target, like a miniature homing torpedo. |
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The torpedo detonated beneath the bridge, breaking the ship's back and splitting her in half. |
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He passed the anti-aircraft ships at less than mast height in the very mouths of their guns and launched a torpedo at point blank range. |
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They removed the flags that were draped over the two torpedo cases that sat in the launch platform. |
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Seven battleships, six cruisers and several torpedo boats steamed among the trawlers. |
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We were instructed to head south to clear the area and allow a sister ship to conduct an over-the-side torpedo shot. |
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After all, several of the crew were killed in the torpedo attack and the ship is a war grave. |
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The reactor was venting somewhat, and the torpedo tube doors were open but the torpedoes appeared intact. |
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On the port side an anchor winch and the remains of a single torpedo tube can be seen. |
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From 30m away these were two impressive forms, tapering towards me, each ended with a huge 20-inch diameter torpedo tube hatch. |
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The launch and recovery of the reconnaissance vehicle is via a torpedo tube. |
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In 1900 the U.S. Navy acquired its first modern submarine, fitted with torpedo tubes and running submerged on electricity from storage batteries. |
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The exit went off without much trouble except for the turbulent ride that happened when she was shot out of the torpedo tube. |
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The SM39 in a launch capsule is launched from the submarine's torpedo tubes using a gas generator. |
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And it sounds like Seawolf is having a problem with one of her torpedo tube doors, sir. |
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Royal Navy ships were ordered without torpedo tubes, so by definition they were frigates, while their identical American sisters were destroyers. |
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It will have a solid rocket booster rather than the turbojet engine and be launched from a torpedo tube. |
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In that exchange, a North Korean torpedo boat was sunk and dozens of its sailors killed. |
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The torpedoes remained in their crates and were never used as there was no torpedo boat! |
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By the turn of the century, destroyers mounted torpedoes and replaced the torpedo boat. |
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All week I have been hearing tales of the S57, a German torpedo boat from World War Two. |
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To increase her lethal potential, she had aboard a 10-ton motor torpedo boat which her captain employed with good effect. |
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He voted in favour of the pull-out in the Cabinet, but tried to torpedo the plan in parliament. |
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Fears over traffic congestion could torpedo plans to make a Selby transport depot the hub of a nationwide distribution network. |
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It also adds to the anger following last year's Government decision to torpedo plans for a massive marina, following a public inquiry. |
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He voted in favor of it in the Cabinet but also tried to torpedo the plan in parliamentary maneuvers. |
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Those closest to the lagoon entrance offer the best chance of finding a resting leopard shark or torpedo ray, especially early in the morning. |
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This is guided to the submarine position where it drops a parachute-retarded torpedo, or depth charge, from a height of 400 feet. |
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The ship has ten torpedo tubes for 20 Vodopad-NK anti-submarine missiles or torpedoes. |
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As the torpedo reaches the closest distance to the target, a magnetic proximity fuse and an impact fuse detonates the warhead. |
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By understanding how dolphins move in the water, perhaps they could improve torpedo, ship and submarine designs. |
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Another attack also failed but it served a purpose of concentrating the focus of the Japanese on these torpedo squadrons. |
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The torpedo was designed primarily for anti-submarine warfare and secondarily for use against surface ships. |
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Submarines ranged offshore to guard against unexpected seawards attacks, backing up patrolling destroyers and torpedo boats. |
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In the interview, Bill told of being on the ferry when the torpedo from the midget submarine turned it to matchwood and took 21 lives. |
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To the rear of the left torpedo tube, the flap is missing and the rudders and screw of one of the torpedoes are sticking out of the pipe. |
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The warship was then hit by a torpedo, which rendered her screws and rudders useless. |
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The test bed for this novel engine is the Slocum glider, a craft that looks like a 2-m-long torpedo with slim wings. |
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Some served as motor torpedo boat tenders, battle damage repair ships or aircraft engine repair ships. |
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One managed to negotiate the harbour's torpedo nets and attach a warhead to the cruiser's hull, and attach magnetic mines to other ships. |
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A torpedo had hit port side aft near an ammunition magazine, completely severing her stern. |
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Langsdorff, a torpedo specialist, kept both ships astern to give them the smallest possible target with regards to a torpedo attack. |
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Later, I heard that one torpedo had hit the rudder and put its steering out of action. |
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The U.S. armada at Culebra was swelled by a flotilla of support vessels, including colliers and torpedo boats. |
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When battleships showed their prowess, submarines and torpedo boats were devised. |
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Additionally her armament included a 3 inch disappearing gun, two Lewis guns and four torpedo tubes. |
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There were four guns and four torpedo launchers on the cruiser, going around the dome. |
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The exercises saw successful missile launches, artillery firing and torpedo runs. |
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Throughout the entire federation campaign, a couple of torpedo turrets were capable of repelling every attack the enemy mounted. |
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Two torpedo tubes are designed for firing remote-controlled torpedoes with a very high accuracy. |
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An ingenious Frenchman named Gabet has lately constructed such a wirelessly controlled torpedo boat. |
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The Submarine Service could have had a kill on the first day of the war but the torpedo went underneath a German ship. |
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Bloomington is a small town, and any whiff of scandal would torpedo the project. |
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Unhappy with the radio-operator role that SOE planned for her, she joined the OSS and was inserted back into France by torpedo boat in March 1944 to continue her work. |
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It is possible to penetrate forwards from here past large-scale engine-room machinery and out through the torpedo hole in the starboard side below the waterline. |
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During a night operation in the Solomon Islands in 1943, the patrol torpedo boat he commanded was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. |
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They also painted the torpedo in anti-graffiti paint to hopefully deter any future negative social behaviour and coated the nose cone in a clear metal lacquer. |
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This device, looking rather like a bloated torpedo, is equipped with lights and cameras that scan the seabed for debris. |
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As the exhausted and injured men slept below decks the ship was struck amidships by a torpedo from a German E-boat and she broke in two, sinking in just 15 seconds. |
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Hoping that his hi-tech marketing wiles will not go for naught, Bennett will now try to torpedo the prize ceremony. |
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The sub was so quiet, that it consistently managed to get within easy torpedo range. |
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The torpedo broke the destroyer's back, causing her to sink in 15 seconds and thus consigning hundreds of exhausted troops and matelots to their deaths. |
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He accentuates his taps with an occasional torpedo, little explosive pellets that detonate on contact, which were a lot of fun before life got so safe and sane. |
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The story told about a World War II German submarine that was doomed to torpedo the same ship over and over again and, in doing so, driving the submarine captain mad. |
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There are a myriad of reasons why Congress may torpedo this plan. |
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What could torpedo these plans is if tourists as a whole cancel their winter holidays out of safety concerns or if the airlines cut capacity on transcontinental routes. |
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However, overly strong, untimely or uninformed opinions and input that override a well thought-out process can torpedo the best plans for no reason. |
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His first thought was that Craig's initiative would torpedo the proposal. |
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Since any decision to change the executive director must be made unanimously by the executive board, he or she can easily torpedo proposed changes. |
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Queensland had two gun boats, one torpedo boat and a picket boat. |
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Nampo personnel landing craft are based on Soviet P-6 torpedo boat hulls. |
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All we knew was that it was either a motor torpedo boat or motor gun boat. |
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German bombing of airfields had now made it impossible to fly back, but there was the possibility of taking a torpedo boat from Dunkirk to Cherbourg. |
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Almost at the stern a small rudder post is visible, then a cylindrical hole running back along the centre line of the hull is the stern torpedo tube. |
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But luckily the gravitational fields of the newly formed Genesis Planet were still in flux, and they snared the far-flung torpedo tube, yielding a soft-landing on the surface. |
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Only the aft elevator could be used when a full air group was in the hangar, as dive-bombers would block the use of the midship elevator for raising torpedo planes. |
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Will sanctions already in effect continue to torpedo the Iranian economy, or will sanctions begin to crumble? |
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They torpedo the Affordable Care Act, and I believe we will now have single payer in this country within the next 15 years. |
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A major flare-up in the fighting is another factor that could torpedo the talks. |
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee cannot meet without at least one Democrat present, so a unanimous boycott would delay if not torpedo the nomination. |
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It looks as if the hull was broken open for commercial salvage of the copper in the motors, and perhaps the torpedo tubes were salvaged from the bow at the same time. |
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My favorite of the pastas was the veal cannelloni, dual torpedo tubes of ground veal, congealed in a creamy mushroom sauce, with flakes of Parmesan sprinkled on top. |
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Due to their low submerged speed, most submarines operated as temporarily submersible torpedo boats, largely sailing and often attacking while surfaced. |
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It is armed with one homing torpedo, one torpedo rocket and twelve bombs. |
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The story related that after the Navy torpedo bomber made a deadstick landing on the airfield the pilot stepped out of the cockpit and was shot down in cold blood. |
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The propshaft had already been broken by the torpedo explosion. |
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His torpedo ran on water with a rocket system filled with explosive gunpowder materials and had three firing points. |
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During the civil war in Russia, British torpedo boats made a raid on Kronstadt harbour damaging two battleships and sinking a cruiser. |
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There were now two bow and two stern torpedo tubes, with six torpedoes carried. |
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The director in charge of torpedo development continued to claim it was the crews' fault. |
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Scheer had ordered his cruisers and destroyers forward in a torpedo attack to cover the turning away of his battleships. |
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A number of opportunities to attack enemy ships by torpedo had presented themselves but had been missed. |
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Von der Tann sighted the torpedo and was forced to steer sharply to starboard to avoid it as it passed close to her bows. |
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Hipper was still aboard the torpedo boat G39 and was unable to command his squadron for this attack. |
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The acoustic torpedo was designed to run straight to an arming distance of 400 m and then turn toward the loudest noise detected. |
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The IX torpedo boat flotilla formed close support immediately surrounding the battlecruisers. |
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The lead cruiser turned away to dodge the torpedo, while the second turned towards the submarine, attempting to ram. |
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Her steering was damaged, causing her to turn back into the path of Goodenough's ships and she was hit by shells and torpedo. |
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Strassburg was first to find Arethusa and attacked with shells and torpedoes, but was driven off by torpedo attacks from the destroyers. |
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The British submarine E4 had observed the action and launched a torpedo at Stettin, but missed. |
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However, a submarine design office was set up in the Netherlands and a torpedo research program was started in Sweden. |
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Russian mines sank one Bulgarian torpedo boat and damaged one more during the war. |
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The bubble jet effect occurs when a mine or torpedo detonates in the water a short distance away from the targeted ship. |
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Six torpedo boats bombarded Calais and another six bombarded Dover just before midnight. |
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The Luftwaffe made 21 deliberate attacks on small torpedo boats during the Battle of Britain, sinking none. |
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It could mount guns capable of destroying the torpedo boat before it was within range to use its own weapons. |
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The first few missile boats were originally torpedo boats, with the torpedo tubes replaced by missile launchers. |
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As part of defence works against the threat torpedo attack, work commenced on two northern breakwaters to complete the enclosed harbour. |
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Flight 19 was a training flight of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared on December 5, 1945, while over the Atlantic. |
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The guns at the Batteries also fired on German torpedo boats attempting night landings. |
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A further advance in military naval technology was the design of the submarine, and its weapon, the torpedo. |
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The plans for the naval defense of Lisbon would also include the use of torpedo boats and submarines, that are later also acquired. |
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The Q-ship was attacked by a German U-boat, UC29, and struck by a torpedo at close range. |
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A more practical method of increasing combat endurance was the external torpedo tube, loaded only in port. |
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The mine is propelled to its intended position by propulsion equipment such as a torpedo. |
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Generally, torpedo mines incorporate computerised acoustic and magnetic fuzes. |
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These are mines containing a moving weapon as a warhead, either a torpedo or a rocket. |
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A spar torpedo was a mine attached to a long pole and detonated when the ship carrying it rammed another one and withdrew a safe distance. |
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Hamas is playing an active role in trying to torpedo the peace process. |
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This led to the introduction of ships dedicated to keeping them away from the fleets, the torpedo boat destroyers, or simply destroyers. |
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These were forgotten and replaced by incessant controversies on tactics, strategy, gunnery, torpedo warfare, blockade, etc. |
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Vesuvius, a torpedo boat of 245 tons, was Vernon's experimental tender for the conduct of torpedo trials. |
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His duties included lecturing, and negotiating the purchase of the navy's first Whitehead torpedo. |
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As Controller, he introduced torpedo boat destroyers as a class of ship intended for defence against attack from torpedo boats or submarines. |
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Before World War I steam torpedo boats which were larger and more heavily armed than hitherto were being used. |
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The gunboat was armed with torpedoes and designed for hunting and destroying smaller torpedo boats. |
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It was the first practical testing of the new steel battleships, cruisers, destroyers, submarines, and torpedo boats. |
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In the aftermath of its successful attack against the ship, the Hunley also sank, possibly because it was too close to its own exploding torpedo. |
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The loss of even a squadron of torpedo boats to enemy fire would be more than outweighed by the sinking of a capital ship. |
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The Norwegians initially planned to arm her with a spar torpedo, but this may never have been fitted. |
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The 67-centimetre diameter of the body precludes launch from any size of Russian torpedo tube, so this variant is to be vertically launched. |
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It is designed to be launched from a torpedo tube on a submarine and it is used for inspection, surveillance and recovery. |
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Law's thick Scottish accent is more shipshape than the script, which jettisons plausibility from the torpedo tubes early on. |
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Law's thick Scottish accent is more ship-shape than the script, which jettisons plausibility from the torpedo tubes early on. |
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The introduction of the torpedo provided a weapon that could cripple, or even sink, any battleship. |
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North Korean forces from a torpedo boat and a subchaser boarded the Pueblo. |
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This category includes minesweepers, subchasers, motor torpedo boats, patrol craft, motor gunboats. |
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In 1864 Union Naval Lieutenant Cushing fitted a steam launch with a spar torpedo to attack the Confederate ironclad Albemarle. |
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The torpedo boat would back away to a safe distance and detonate the torpedo, usually by means of a long cord attached to a trigger. |
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This was a charge of powder in a waterproof case, mounted to the bow of the torpedo boat below the water line on a long spar. |
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The submarine had just one torpedo tube at the front and a total of three torpedoes. |
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The David class of torpedo boats were steam powered with a partially enclosed hull. |
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From 1907 onward, all torpedo boats were constructed using turbine engines. |
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It was Tesla who invented the polyphase electric motor, the bladeless steam turbine, and the radio-guided torpedo. |
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The American Civil War saw a number of innovations in naval warfare, including an early type of torpedo boat, armed with spar torpedoes. |
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Due to torpedo improvements in range and accuracy, emphasis was placed on a secondary armament of smaller guns to defend against them. |
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The introduction of fast torpedo boats in the late 19th century was a serious concern to the era's naval strategists. |
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In October 1887 the first torpedo division was created at Wilhelmshaven and the second torpedo division based at Kiel. |
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They were created to counter battleships and other slow and heavily armed ships by using speed, agility, and the power of their torpedo weapons. |
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In 1940, a torpedo training unit was formed, which trained both RAF and Royal Navy crews. |
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A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle. |
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A mixed warload of a single torpedo and four depth charges could also be carried, the depth charges released from individual cradles over the sides, rather than a stern ramp. |
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Bristol Beaufort torpedo bombers attacked at dawn next day and one aircraft found the harbour through the haze and torpedoed Gneisenau in the stern. |
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The ships were equipped with torpedo nets, trailed along the hull intended to stop torpedoes, but these reduced maximum speed to an impractical 8 knots and were later removed. |
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Destroyers became so much more useful, having better seaworthiness and greater capabilities than torpedo boats, that they eventually replaced most torpedo boats. |
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However, by the end of the 1890s torpedo gunboats had been made obsolete by their more successful contemporaries, the torpedo boat destroyers, which were much faster. |
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To deter a British chase, Scheer ordered a major torpedo attack by his destroyers and a potentially sacrificial charge by Scouting Group I's four remaining battlecruisers. |
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Essentially very small cruisers, torpedo gunboats were equipped with torpedo tubes and an adequate gun armament, intended for hunting down smaller enemy boats. |
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There were also to be 38 light cruisers, and 144 torpedo boats. |
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When the anatomist John Hunter published his dissections of the torpedo and gymnotus fish, the anatomical organs for transmitting electricity were laid open. |
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The British disabled the German torpedo boat V27, which the Germans soon abandoned and sank, and Petard then torpedoed and sank V29, her second score of the day. |
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Next day the Nore Command was ordered to keep six destroyers on call in the Thames and be ready to send six torpedo boats to reinforce those at Dover. |
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The first confrontation with Japanese warships occurred on 29 April 1905 when the Russian submarine Som was fired upon by Japanese torpedo boats, but then withdrew. |
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The full ASW fit would include a MAD boom, rotary sonobuoy dispenser under the rear fuselage, torpedo bays in enlarged sponsons, and four anti-ship missiles under the wings. |
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A number of inexpensive torpedo boats attacking en masse could overwhelm a larger ship's ability to fight them off using its large but cumbersome guns. |
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The German battleships carried five or six underwater torpedo tubes in three sizes from 18 to 21 inch and the battlecruisers carried four or five tubes. |
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The 52-cm vehicle can actually be housed in a submarine torpedo tube and the operator can deliver 40 kg of limpet mines of either the 7 or 15 kg size. |
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A fault in a bow torpedo tube flooded a forward compartment. |
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For most surface-based warships, the danger from enemy subs isn't the vessel itself, but the swift and accurate projectiles that come hurtling out of their torpedo tubes. |
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The British battleships carried three or four underwater torpedo tubes. |
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Mr Pickering's 'Hi!' came out of nowhere and hit him like a torpedo. |
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His design utilized old torpedo tubes and steel from decommissioned tanks. |
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The trip turned to tragedy when it was decided to allow seawater into the torpedo tubes to add weight to the submarine as it was having difficulty diving. |
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I was very lucky because Gene Lukowski took my place on the forward torpedo tubes about five or 10 minutes before the accident happened, and he was killed. |
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In the 19th century, mines were called torpedoes, a name probably conferred by Robert Fulton after the torpedo fish, which gives powerful electric shocks. |
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The fleet included six cruisers, four torpedo boats, a torpedo gunboat, 13 gunships and other auxiliary and minor vessels, with a submarine under construction. |
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The magnetic detonator was sensitive to mechanical oscillations during the torpedo run, and to fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field at high latitudes. |
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A particular concern was the threat of torpedoes, which Germany had boasted would dispose of the British fleet, and the numerous French torpedo boats. |
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Their low sides made them susceptible to swamping in high seas, and even to having their boiler fires extinguished by spray from their own torpedo explosions. |
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Sand covering the loss of several planes and ships, including the loss of Flight 19, a group of five US Navy Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers on a training mission. |
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The torpedo boat attacked by ramming her intended target, which stuck the torpedo to the target ship by means of a barb on the front of the torpedo. |
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The torpedo boat caused considerable worry for many naval planners. |
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After WWII, with the development of the homing torpedo, better sonar systems, and nuclear propulsion, submarines also became able to hunt each other effectively. |
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The team said a marking in Korea's Hangeul script was found on salvaged parts and matched markings on a stray North Korean torpedo recovered by the South seven years ago. |
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An even greater threat was the widespread arrival of patrol aircraft, which could hunt down torpedo boats long before they could engage their targets. |
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The Confederate torpedo boats were armed with spar torpedoes. |
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At the start of World War II the fort was used as a training battery for coastal gunners and it was equipped with torpedo tubes mounted on the pier. |
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