NEW GERMAN TORPEDO
Electrical Propeller SECRECY COMPLETE. lAus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received March 21 at 9 p.ni.'i LONDON March 21. The “Daily Telegraph’s” naval correspondent says: German experts have greatly improved the torpedo by propelling it by electricity instead of by compressed air. This change has eliminated the track of air bubbles which makes compressed air torpedoes visible to the enemy. The electric torpedo is slower than the latest compressed air torpedo, but it can exceed a speed of thirty miles an hour, which makes it very dangerous to slowmoving merchantmen. German naval men have also devised a method of invisible tiring of the torpedo by the hiding of the rush of air from the torpedo tube. Hitherto there was an upheaval on the surface which betrayed the firing of a torpedo.
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Grey River Argus, 22 March 1935, Page 4
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