ELECTRIC TORPEDO
INVENTION BY GERMANS NO BUBBLE TRAIL LEFT THE FIRING CONCEALED DEADLY TO SLOW SHIPS By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 7 p.m. London, March 21. German experts have greatly improved the torpedo by propelling it by electricity instead of compressed air, thus eliminating the track of air bubbles which is visiule to the enemy, says the Daily Telegraph’s naval correspondent. The electric torpedo is slower than the latest compressed air torpedo' but qan. exceed 30 miles an hour, which is very dangerous to slow-moving merchantmen. German naval men have also devised a method of invisible firing by hiding the rush of air from the tube. Hitherto the upheaval on the surface of the water betrayed the firing of the torpedo.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1935, Page 5
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