A Diving Torpedo Boat.
The London correspondent of the " Manchester Courier '' hears that the Admiralty has under consideration a new species of torpedo-boat, constructed with a view of avoiding the nets with whioh ironclads are surrounded now a days. The latest invention claims to bo able to dive under theso obstaoles, discharge the torpedo agairst the ship's bottom, and to return in a similar manner. " In other words, it paroially realises the -submarine vessels described by Jules Varna in A Thousand Leagues Under tho Sea. The idea is scarcely original. Indeed, three or four patents of the kind were submitted to the American Government not very long ago. I believe, however, that they hardly fulfilled their pretensions, and that they were in consequence, rejected. The English idea, howover, is said by experts to bo worked out with remarkable ingenuity, and may at least be considered a long step in advance of similar contrivances."
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Bush Advocate, Volume XI, Issue 863, 25 November 1893, Page 6
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153A Diving Torpedo Boat. Bush Advocate, Volume XI, Issue 863, 25 November 1893, Page 6
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