Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 265
of the Civil War, when the Con-federates constructed some cigar-shaped ves- sels of sheet-iron, to be driven by a screwworked by hand, and submerged by the ad-mission of water; the descent and ascent wereregulated by rudders or paddles on the sidesof the boat, in much the same way as in theBushnell… … THE LEAK THAT SANK THE ALBEMARLE — CAUSED BY A TORPEDO. (SEE PAGE 316.) boat should pass. They had also torpedoes seton a spar standing out from the bow of theboat. One of these sparred torpedoes de-stroyed the Federal blockader Housatonic,off Charleston, but the torpedo-boat and hercrew of nine…
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