Word: torpedo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief, Admiral Heihachiro Togo, knew that Admiral Rozhestvensky was a brave, capable and intelligent adversary. He knew that the Russian fleet was slightly superior numerically to his own: eight battleships, twelve cruisers, nine destroyers to five battleships, three second-line battleships, 23 cruisers and a flotilla of gunboats, torpedo boats and destroyers. But Admiral Togo also knew that Admiral Rozhestvensky's fleet was undermanned and under-provisioned, that all its bottoms were foul from its long sea voyage, that it could not carry enough coal to dodge all the way around Japan to Vladivostok with the possibility of being...
...yards, the two fleets steaming in parallel columns like a classic exercise in an Annapolis textbook. In three quarters of an hour the leading Russian ships were out of action and Admiral Rozhestvensky gravely wounded. After nightfall when the Russian fleet was in hopeless disorder, the Japanese torpedo boats struck...
...very young British naval officer is rescued from a gutter by a U. S. airman, taken on a night bombing flight. Next day he reciprocates by showing the airman what his tiny torpedo-boat...
There had been, he was glad to say, "a very satisfactory increase in orders for land armaments, in particular light tanks and anti-aircraft equipment." He had a novelty to announce. The Whitehead Torpedo Co., a Vickers subsidiary, had just produced a new torpedo specially designed for firing from airplanes, and the Air Ministry was charmed with it. Striking back at uncomfortable exposés of the international armament makers. Sir Herbert cried...
...Because warships of less than 600 tons are exempt from the London Naval Treaty, Japan has just launched several of a series of 527-ton torpedo boats, mounting three 5-in. guns. Last week the Tomozuro, first of its class, capsized at battle practice drowning 110 hands...