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THE SUBMARINE TORPEDO BOAT
of most formidable accuracy and destruction. The latest
fruition in this particular field is the Davis armor piercing
torpedo. The salient feature of this new torpedo is that
instead of just the ordinary explosive charge in the head
it contains also what is in reality a gun barrel loaded with
an explosive projectile. Upon striking a ship, the contact
Torpedo with lance-head fixed for cutting through nets
fires this gun as well as the bursting charge and discharges
the projectile right into the bowels of the ship where it in
turn explodes.
The cost of the present 18" torpedo is about $5,000, and
of the big new ones about $7,500. The United States
Naval Torpedo Station at Newport. R.I. is at work per-
fecting a new torpedo of long range and high speed which
is said to exceed in these respects anything yet attained.
At any rate it is quite certain that the torpedo has reached
a state of perfection in this country equal to any torpedo
found aboard. And in case of necessity, with the Govern-
ment shops at Newport which are undergoing extensive
enlargements, and the shops of private concerns, we are
quite well equipped to turn out torpedoes in large quanti-
ties, even though it does take considerable time for their
manufacture.