. Notes on torpedoes, offensive and defensive. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. The term torpedo has been hitherto applied, in a vaguekiud of way, to all the numerous contrivances which have,from time to time, been devised for producing submarineexplosions calculated to act destructively against ships intheir immediate vicinity. This term has been used whetherthese engines have been arranged defensively, the chargebeing ignited when a vessel is within range of their sphereof explosion, or whether offensively, that is, in a movableform for the attack of a vessel at anchor, or as a means ofoffense again
. Notes on torpedoes, offensive and defensive. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. The term torpedo has been hitherto applied, in a vaguekiud of way, to all the numerous contrivances which have,from time to time, been devised for producing submarineexplosions calculated to act destructively against ships intheir immediate vicinity. This term has been used whetherthese engines have been arranged defensively, the chargebeing ignited when a vessel is within range of their sphereof explosion, or whether offensively, that is, in a movableform for the attack of a vessel at anchor, or as a means ofoffense against a vessel in chase of a ship possessing thenecessary apparatus, or under whatever circumstances theyhave been employed. This term, torpedo, does not seem applicable to defen- Definition of asive mines, or those which would be used to block up thesubmarine miue-channel of a river, or the approaches to a fortified sea-port,or in any other similar position,- in fact, occupying a siteanalogous to that of a system of countermines in connectionwi
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