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Torpedo Bombers Sent to Mediterranean ADMIRALTY’S OPINION London, January 11. “The Times,” stressing the value the Admiralty places on torpedo attack from the air, in which a high measure of success was achieved in the recent practice, says that 14 Blackburn-Baffin machines, the latest type of torpedo bombers, are being shipped to the Mediterranean for the aircraft-carrier Glorious, replacing the Ripon machines. The new aeroplanes,- which are sturdily built, enabling them to_land on the deck, possess a range of 450 miles and a speed of 136 miles an hour. They are able to dive from a height of several thousand feet until within fifty feet of tlie water and 500 yards from the target, when they launch a torpedo with the deadliest effect.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 93, 13 January 1934, Page 11
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125POTENT WEAPONS Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 93, 13 January 1934, Page 11
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