Word: torpedoed
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There were six light cruisers, 29 destroyers, 14 submarines, a host of mine layers, torpedo boats, etc. As yet unlet were contracts for 23 more warships, including two 45,500-ton superdreadnaughts...
...Torpedo-carrying planes claimed a German destroyer in Trondheim. A squadron of heavy bombers penetrated by night to a seaplane base on the Baltic, blew up a munitions ship passing through the Great Belt. But on the face of it the Germans had the advantage by air, with many more planes and with land bases on both sides of the 75-mile-wide Skagerrak...
...also explained a new torpedo design which would make a better, larger, and more efficacious hole in the side of a ship by utilizing the idiosyncrasies of rapidly-expanding high-explosives. A cone extends into the rose of the torpedo and results in an explosive effect like that of an armor-piercing shell...
...fuel for the carburetors of Germany started up the Danube, muscle for the police of Rumania passed down the Rhone. Three motor torpedo boats of the swift (47-knot) type which Great Britain has built by the dozen for service in the Channel, the Mediterranean and perhaps the Baltic, were sold by Britain to Rumania this winter. When ice left the rivers of France, up the Seine right through Paris snored these swift and lethal little craft. Turning out of the Seine into the Yonne just below Montereau it is possible to navigate that stream to the Armanc,on, continue...
...Court of Claims decided five of his six patent claims were valid, later decided the Government owed him approximately half a million dollars. Forthwith he wrote Congress that he had now planned an 85,000-ton, shockproof warship which would be immune to serious damage by shell, torpedo, or air bomb...