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Identifier: notesontorpedoes00stot (find matches)
Title: Notes on torpedoes, offensive and defensive
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Stotherd, Richard Hugh, 1828-1895. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Torpedoes Submarine mines
Publisher: Washington, Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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in again when required.When the poles are rigged in, their heels rest on crutcheson the outside of the after part of the boat. The height ofthe stanchion, its distance from the fulcrum-crutch, and thelength of the pole, depend on the depth to which the torpedois required to be submerged and on its charge; but appendedare the dimensions of the Excelleuts torpedo-gig andfittings, constructed to admit of 50 pounds of gunpowder,submerged nine feet, being fired with perfect safety to theboat and its crew. Such a charge so placed, we know fromexperiment, would inflict irreparable damage on any shipas at present constructed, if exploded in contact with herbottom ; and as it is probable that the horizontal section ofits ellipsoid of destruction at the depth of nine feet wouldnot be less than a circle of five feet radius, great mischiefwould doubtless be caused by it even when not exploded inperfect contact, but within the assumed live-feet limit. or — - 9/i »Jl/t ft 5>» *> -#T--A-V
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279 The ExcelientV steam-launch, fitted up in a similarmanner, carried a torpedo charged with 100 pounds of fine-grained powder, the only exceptions to the torpedo gig ar-rangements being that it was submerged to a depth of 10feet, and the torpedo when in position was 25 feet (insteadof 17J feet) from the stem, in the direction of the pole. Nowater was shipped on the explosion being effected, nor wasthere the slightest inconvenience of any sort experienced.Dimensions of torpedo gig and fittings. Length of boat 30 feet. Beam 5J feet. Length of canopy lOf feet. Distance of cross-piece from stem , 2 feet. Length of poles 28 feet. Thickness of butt-end of poles 4J inches. Length of stanchion ...» 6 feet. Distance from stanchion to the cross-piece in stem 5 feet. Distance from after crutch to stanchion 10; feet. Each stanchion is supported by two f-inch iron stays, onegoing to the opposite gunwale and the other supporting it ina fore-and-aft direction. Rear-Admiral A. Cooper Key, C. B., F

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  • booksubject:Submarine_mines
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