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In this situation the compartment would have been evacuated and sealed using the watertight bulkhead door to the rear of the torpedo stowage.
Originally intended as motor gunboats for convoy escort, they were converted to torpedo boats while under construction.
These colonial naval forces consisted in the main of torpedo boats, gunboats and other small craft.
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.
All the watertight doors, deadlights and scuttles had been securely closed before the torpedo struck the ship.
The torpedo tubes were built into the prow, with a high freeboard providing good protection from the waves.
Dunkerque was only slightly damaged, but was crippled by torpedo aircraft during a second attack on 6 July.
As the torpedo struck her forward magazine, the explosion blew away all the fore-end structure below the waterline.
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.
I have scanned your ship, and it is outfitted with very qualified pilots as well as fairly good shields and torpedo cannons.
The fore and aft hydroplanes are still in position and the external torpedo tubes on the bow are a very impressive sight.
The auto box changes up way too early and you're left gliding around the roads in a leather lined torpedo.
The torpedo gives the Akula a one-shot kill capability against any naval vessel short of an aircraft carrier due to its huge warhead.
The charioteers were crack units of specially-trained frogmen who sat astride a 30 ft-long torpedo which they steered into enemy harbours.
Mines can be sown in deep water, and are propelled at high speed towards a target, like a miniature homing torpedo.
The torpedo detonated beneath the bridge, breaking the ship's back and splitting her in half.
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.
They removed the flags that were draped over the two torpedo cases that sat in the launch platform.
Seven battleships, six cruisers and several torpedo boats steamed among the trawlers.
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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Austrian aeroplanes and antiaircraft batteries obtained hits on the Italian torpedo boats.
If it becomes necessary, I will volunteer to be shot out of the torpedo tube.
As Jimmie 205 stepped forward to enter the torpedo tube, Harry held up a warning hand.
The two main sets of electric motors are underneath the boards, in the stern, where we have a third torpedo tube.
The early submarines had as a rule only one torpedo tube and were incapable of carrying more than two or three torpedoes.
They carried but one torpedo tube and two extra torpedoes and had a radius of action of but 300 miles.
The most typical feature of this boat was the fact that it carried a torpedo tube for Whitehead torpedoes.
He moves his boat so that the torpedo tube at her bow points directly towards the Birmingham.
The mighty prowess ascribed to the remora is imaginary, and the electrical capacity of the torpedo greatly exaggerated.
Amongst the skates may be mentioned the celebrated torpedo or electric ray.
They had sent out a torpedo boat to sink the ironsides, but it was a failure.
Tom frothed at the mouth and seemed like a fizzing torpedo about to explode.
Unfortunately, while the de Kalb was moving slowly along she struck a torpedo, which exploded under her bow and sunk her.
It had the tonnage of a small trans-Atlantic liner and the speed of a torpedo boat.
This time the majestic was taken as the target for a torpedo and she went down.
He grabbed a handful of shirt on the first torpedo and poked his face down.
Ahead a torpedo boat destroyer of the United States Navy scurried briskly, often scooting off to one side of the course.
Well, sir, if he were a torpedo plane or dive bomber or scout bomber pilot, he would have somebody along with him.
A Russian torpedo boat in shelter behind the navarin, now seeing its chance, darted out and launched its projectile.
Macintyre and I will be able to doctor that torpedo boat so that she will not trouble us.
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