-
Torpedo nets
could be hung out from the
defending ship, when
moored or
otherwise stationary in the water, on
multiple horizontal booms. Each
boom was...
- A spar
torpedo is a
weapon consisting of a bomb
placed at the end of a long pole, or spar, and
attached to a boat. The
weapon is used by
running the end...
- A
torpedo ram is a type of
torpedo boat
combining a ram with
torpedo tubes.
Incorporating design elements from the
cruiser and the monitor, it was intended...
- The
Brennan torpedo was a
torpedo patented by Irish-born
Australian inventor Louis Brennan in 1877. It was
propelled by two contra-rotating propellers...
-
torpedo nets were tried.
These were
heavy metal mesh nets hung out on
booms at some
distance from the
sides of
ships to
catch or
detonate torpedoes short...
-
aircraft manufactured by
General Motors) is an
American World War II-era
torpedo bomber developed initially for the
United States Navy and
Marine Corps...
- The
Sydney Harbour anti-submarine
boom net was an anti-
torpedo and
submarine defence net that was in
Sydney Harbour during World War II. It
spanned the...
- PT-109 was an 80-foot Elco PT boat (patrol
torpedo boat) last
commanded by
Lieutenant (junior grade) John F. Kennedy, ****ure
United States president,...
- nets of the
boom were suspended,
enabling the
vessel to
simply crawl over the top of them.
Armament consisted of two
lightweight torpedoes mounted on either...
- The
third HMS
Polyphemus was a
Royal Navy
torpedo ram,
serving from 1881
until 1903. A shallow-draft, fast, low-profile vessel, she was
designed to penetrate...
