Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 29
the water. Of thosethat are anchored, there are also two kinds. Onekind consists of great iron boxes filled with dyna-mite and sunk in the water at particular places. 14 TORPEDOES DONT ANCHOR [November, They rest in the mud, or on the sand and stones,till they are ready to be fired, when they blow… … torpedo rests on the bottom. These, too, whenthey explode, destroy anything that happens to benear. At Willets Point, where the warning signtells the ships not to anchor, the torpedoes areplanted at the bottom of the water, and sometimes, as on the Fourth of July, some of them arefired off. Of…
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