torpedo boat
a small, fast, highly maneuverable boat used for torpedoing enemy shipping.
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During a night operation in the Solomon Islands in 1943, the patrol torpedo boat he commanded was rammed by a Japanese destroyer.
Three Great Men Died That Day: JFK, C.S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley | John Garth | November 3, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe ugliest of these was a small torpedo boat which stopped us before we were out of the English Channel.
Ways of War and Peace | Delia AustrianThen we cut across the Solent towards Southsea, watching the weird evolutions of a 35-knot torpedo-boat.
The Relief of Mafeking | Filson YoungOne of the most remarkable of these little steamers is a torpedo-boat built for the United States navy.
A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine | Robert H. ThurstonIt was dusk, but light enough to see an unfamiliar craft, a torpedo-boat in fact, moored to stakes at one side.
The Riddle of the Sands | Erskine Childers
Some ships of this description can spurt up to 25 knots—not so long ago considered a high speed even for a torpedo boat destroyer.
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves | W.H.G. Kingston
British Dictionary definitions for torpedo boat
(formerly) a small high-speed warship designed to carry out torpedo attacks in coastal waters
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