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2 unusual facts about Torpedo boat


Torpedo boat

This was found to be inadequate in combat, and the result was a "fleet torpedo boat" class (Flottentorpedoboot), which were significantly larger, up to 1,700 tons, comparable to small destroyers.

Luppis knew Robert Whitehead, an English engineer who was the manager of a marine engineering works in the city, and in 1864 Luppis formed a partnership with him in order to perfect the invention.


Battle of Caldera Bay

It involved two Balmacedist torpedo boats, Almirante Lynch and Almirante Condell, and the Congressional armored frigate Blanco Encalada.

Caldera, Chile

During the 1891 Chilean Civil War, Caldera Bay outside the city became the site of the Battle of Caldera Bay where torpedo boats loyal to Manuel Balmaceda sunk the rebel ironclad Blanco Encalada.

Karlsruhe-class cruiser

Rostock served as a torpedo boat flotilla leader with the High Seas Fleet following her commissioning; her flotilla frequently screened for the battlecruisers in the I Scouting Group, including during the Battle of Dogger Bank in January 1915 and operations off the British coast in early 1916.

Lisbon Naval Base

Among others, in the early 20th century, there was the Lisbon Navy Arsenal, the Doca de Belém submarine base, the Bom Sucesso seaplane base, the Vila Franca de Xira destroyer base, the Vale do Zebro torpedo boat base, the Alcântara Naval Barracks and the Doca da Marinha naval quay.

Queenscliffe Maritime Museum

Its grounds hold a fishermen's waiting shed with ship paintings by Henry Zanoni, the deck house from the iron sailing ship Shandon, and the buried hull of the Victorian torpedo boat HMVS Lonsdale.


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Bainbridge-class destroyer

The US Navy's first torpedo boat destroyers were produced on the recommendation of an 1898 war plans board formed to prosecute the Spanish-American War and chaired by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt.

It should be noted that the Imperial German Navy of 1898-1918 used the term "torpedo boat" for anything up to a large destroyer in size.

Cöln-class cruiser

The I Scouting Group and II Scouting Group, along with the Second Torpedo-Boat Flotilla were to attack a heavily guarded British convoy to Norway, with the rest of the High Seas Fleet steaming in support.

Commando Order

On 30 July 1943, the captured seven-man crew of the Royal Norwegian Navy motor torpedo boat MTB 345 were executed by the Germans in Bergen, Norway on the basis of the Commando Order.

German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin

The escort duties were taken over by Sperrbrecher IV on 18 June and later by the Möwe-class torpedo-boat Falke and the Wolf-class Jaguar.

German submarine U-557

At 1800hrs on the same day, the Italian torpedo boat Orione left the Cretan port of Suda.

HMVS Lonsdale

In 1983, the remains of a torpedo boat likely to be Lonsdale were uncovered in reclaimed land in Queenscliff, Victoria, on the grounds of the Queenscliffe Maritime Museum.

Naval Review

16 December 1907, Hampton Roads - Send-off for the Great White Fleet, which included the USS Georgia, 15 other battleships, a torpedo boat squadron and transports, USS Truxtun

Rubin Design Bureau

The men submitted their design to the Marine Ministry on May 3, 1901; it was approved the following July, and the Baltic Shipyard was then awarded the order for construction of Torpedo Boat No. 113 (later renamed combat submarine Dolphin).

Thomas C. Cooney

Cooney was born July 18, 1853 in Westport, Nova Scotia, and after entering the navy he was sent as a Chief Machinist to fight in the Spanish–American War aboard the U.S. Torpedo Boat Winslow.

V29

SMS V29, a German World War I torpedo boat sunk during the Battle of Jutland

Von dem Knesebeck

Bernd von dem Knesebeck, World War I German naval Commander, commanded the V Torpedo Boat Flotilla at the Battle of Dogger Bank

Water motorsports at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Gyrinus was the earliest round-bilge Semi-Planing Mono-Hull ('SPMH') designed by Sir John Isaac Thornycroft FRS, the great Victorian engineer, previously the designer and builder of the world's first torpedo boats and torpedo boat 'Destroyers'.

William T. Glassell

On the night of October 5, 1863, Glassell and a crew of three in the diminutive torpedo boat David attacked the most powerful ship in the United States Navy, New Ironsides.