torpedo tube

Historical Examples of torpedo tube

• A torpedo-tube for use on model destroyers and battleships is shown in Fig. 104.

  Boys' Book of Model Boats

  Raymond Francis Yates

• The Dow torpedo-tube of the Maine has been located in the wreck.

  The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 10, March 10, 1898

  Various

• The submarine boat carries a number of torpedoes, and has one torpedo-tube near the forward end from which to fire the torpedoes.

  The Story of Great Inventions

  Elmer Ellsworth Burns

• The air-motor is started automatically by release of a trigger as the torpedo is blown out of the torpedo-tube.

  Inventions of the Great War

  A. Russell (Alexander Russell) Bond

• The method of attaching the torpedo-tube to the deck is clearly illustrated in Fig. 104 and no further directions need be given.

  Boys' Book of Model Boats

  Raymond Francis Yates