Word: torpedoed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Escape through torpedo tubes...
...Bell. Not since 1921, when the E-6 went down at its moorings with a torpedo tube open, had the Navy had a submarine accident caused by mechanical failure or fault of the crew. Aboard a man-of-war floating above the 8-4 when she sank off Provincetown in 1927 with a loss of 40 lives, a thoughtful young officer named Allen R. McCann had been profoundly shocked by the inadequacy of rescue methods. Brooding over the problem of getting men out of a submarine, he designed a bell-shaped chamber which could be lowered from the surface...
...Kulangsu, with the Japanese authorities getting bolder and bolder in their demands for control of the Shanghai International Settlement, it began to appear that the Japanese were becoming desperate about the war still dragging on in China, just as in 1917 the Germans began to be desperate enough to torpedo neutral shipping again. A Shanghai spokesman hinted, however, that U. S. ships would escape the search-&-seizure methods applied to ships of other nationalities. That was understandable, since the U. S. has in the Pacific the only Navy that could protect its seagoing nationals...
Submarine Torpedo Boat H. L. Huntley (1863) by Conrad Wise Chapman. One of the submarines built by the Confederacy during the Civil War. "She could be submerged, but had a nasty trick of plunging to the bottom and drowning the men within...
Upping battleship tonnages by 10,000 is like stepping from a twelve into a 16-cylinder car. Last week the U. S. Navy also prepared to get itself a motorcycle. It awarded to seven civilian designers prizes for motor torpedo ("mosquito") boats, 54 to 70-footers which any fireside sailor can comprehend...