IMPROVED TORPEDOS.
A number of improvements have lately been introduced into the fish torpedo, as manufactured at the Royal Laboratory, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, for naval ecrvico. Hitherto its highest speed has has been exercised only at short ranges, not much over 200 yards ; but the Admiralty expressed a desire that this speed should be maintained for something like 500 yards, and the mechanical skill of the department being applied to the task, the problem has been satisfactorily solved. The mysterious engines are now made to travel for nearly 800 yards through the water at a maximum speed of about thirty miles an hour, and their power of traversing still longer distances has at the same time been materially advanced. It has also been found necessary to strengthen the frames of these loonsters in consequence of the practice now adopted of projecting them into the sea from the decks of ships, and they are now capable of such endurance that a plunge of 20ft after they are set at work and despatched on duty is found to have no detrimental effect whatever upon them.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1893, 18 March 1880, Page 3
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183IMPROVED TORPEDOS. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1893, 18 March 1880, Page 3
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