A NEW TORPEDO.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10628, 5 June 1897, Page 3

A NEW TORPEDO.

AuffKfj/VNP, P'Way. 4 trial of a npw tojpedo too}; place In the barljor la the proapnee of a large nambor of Interested spectators. Tab torpedo in the invention of J^r J, p. Perkins, Ponsonby, and is propsllod a, nil steered fay eleotrlolty. A etqrage battery In the Interior of tho torpedo works a powerful eleotrla motor, whloh with the steering and othe< gear Is also enoloaed. The trial took place alongside the ferry tee, and as the model need had no storage cells electricity was anpplled from a dynamo on the Victoria by the Ferry Qgmpany, ths. wire.? fielpg paid nnh o» ;- ue torpedo went along. Several tests were made, the ooarse being oKerod oaph |i|rae. Tjje Inyeufiq? %tgtei (l>a(i 11 win ttayel from si* to eight feet below the snrfaoe, never beooming visible, bat ilelng and exploding at any given time. The steering gear can be tot to any ooareo, and the weight of the lnatrnment will only be about one half of that of any other effeotive torpedo, thna enabling a doable namber to be oarrled, It li also claimed that the torpedo has a wider range than others. Among those preient were some gentlemen from H.M.S, Mlldara, who, It la understood, were favorably Impressed with the principle of the Invention. If it realises the claims of the Inventor in aotaal praptlae, the Perkins tprpado wcinld have three advantages over other torpedoes, namely, a w}der -range, that doable the number wonld be oarrled, and that there is no visible Indication of Us coarse.