Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 38
TORPEDO-BOAT. way. The ward-room differs from the gun-room inits staid and sober quiet, except when some youngofficers, but recently promoted from the latter mess,show a liveliness popularly considered by their these guns, which may be considered as the aux-iliary armament of a torpedo-boat, are… … AN ARMORED CRUISER. or cutwater, is a tube which fires only directlyahead of the boat. On deck are other tubes whichcan be pointed, or, as it is called, trained, inany direction desirable. The torpedo is dis-charged from its tube or carriage by means ofgunpowder or compressed air, which is called…
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