Engineering Wonders of the World
Volume I
Forfatter: Archibald Williams
År: 1945
Serie: Engineering Wonders of the World
Forlag: Thomas Nelson and Sons
Sted: London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York
Sider: 456
UDK: 600 eng - gl.
Volume I with 520 Illustrations, Maps and Diagrams
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TORPEDOES.
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on a series of booms, and rest in the water with
their upper edges just above the surface. The
operation of “ out torpedo nets ” occupies
merely a few minutes in “ smart ” ships.
Russia attempted armouring her ships below
the water-line, and also provided them with
longitudinal armoured bulkheads ; yet there
were three of them, the Kniaz Suvaroff and
two sisters, sunk by the Japanese at the
battle of the Sea of Japan. The flagship,
named above, was struck by at least three
torpedoes, and sank on the night of May 27,
1905, as a result. But, after all, the best de-
fence against the torpedo is the annihilation
of the craft carrying it, and we come back to
the training of the man-behind-the-gun as the
arbiter of naval fortunes. He, and he alone,
will decide the next war, as he has those in the
past, where guns or torpedoes have been in
question,
NAVAL DIVERS PREPARING FOR A DESCENT.
{Photo, Gale and Polden.)