Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 274
y towards the ship, the time from when it wasfirst seen till it was close alongside being about two minutes; and hardlyhad it arrived close to the ship before it exploded, and the ship began tosink. The torpedo-boat, with its commander and crew, were lost, havingjit is supposed, gone into the hole… … fiG. no.—Ejject of the Explosion of Whiteheads Torpedo. course of the boat; there is great danger to the men manning it, as exem-phfied in the case above; and there is again tlie problem of providing ameans of propulsion which shall enable such a boat to advance or retreatfor, say, a mile or more,…
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