Instructions for the Management of Harvey’s Sea Torpedo
by Frederick Harvey
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About this eBook
- Author
- Harvey, Frederick
- Title
- Instructions for the Management of Harvey's Sea Torpedo
- Original Publication
- United Kingdom: E. & F. N. Spon,1871.
- Credits
- deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- V: Naval science
- Subject
- Torpedoes
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 67838
- Release Date
- April 15, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF HARVEY’S SEA TORPEDO.
- 2.Arrangements required for Launching and Towing.
- 3.Preparations for Launching and Towing.
- 4.Launching the Torpedo.
- 5.Recovering the Torpedo.
- 6.Torpedo arranged to Explode by Electricity.
- 7.Description of Capt. C. A. McEvoy’s Circuit-closing Arrangement for Harvey’s Sea Torpedo.
- 8.TACTICS. — CASE 1. ATTACKING A VESSEL MOORED HEAD AND STERN. — CASE 2. ATTACKING A VESSEL AT ANCHOR BY CROSSING THE BOW. — CASE 3. ATTACKING A VESSEL AT ANCHOR BY PASSING ON EITHER SIDE DETERMINED UPON, COMING UP FROM THE STERN. — CASE 4. ATTACKING A VESSEL AT ANCHOR BY COMING UP RIGHT ASTERN AND THEN PASSING ON EITHER SIDE. — CASE 5. PASSING DOWN BETWEEN TWO LINES OF VESSELS AT ANCHOR, AND DESTROYING THEM ON EITHER SIDE. — CASE 6. ATTACKING A VESSEL IN MOTION BY COMING DOWN FROM RIGHT AHEAD. — CASE 7. ATTACKING A VESSEL IN MOTION, COMING UP TO HER FROM RIGHT ASTERN. — CASE 8. IF CHASED BY A HOSTILE VESSEL, AND IT IS DEEMED UNADVISABLE TO FACE HER AND PROCEED AS IN CASE 6. — CASE 9. ATTACKING A VESSEL IN MOTION BY CROSSING HER BOW.
- 9.The subjoined is a Remark upon the Description of Vessel adapted to the Service of the Sea Torpedo.
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