spar torpedo

Spar torpedoes were also used on the David-class of semi-submersible attack boats.

Spar torpedoes were also used on small wooden launches in the late 19th century, although they were not very useful weapons.

The Confederate torpedo boats were armed with spar torpedoes.

The decision between a ram and telescoping spar torpedoes in the ship's bow was not made until November 1870.

Several Confederates used spar torpedoes, which were bombs on long poles designed to attach to boats.

They finally approved one of his plans and authorized him to locate two small steam launches that might be fitted with spar torpedoes.

Spar torpedoes were often equipped with a barbed spear at the end, so it would stick to wooden hulls.

Another attempt to sink the Dwarf took place when two German launches used spar torpedoes to sink the ship but failed.

The American Civil War saw a number of innovations in naval warfare, including the first torpedo boats, which carried spar torpedoes.

The despatch vessel Fuxing was also attacked, less successfully, with spar torpedoes, and was finally carried by boarding.

She also towed monitors from one point to another and experimented with spar torpedoes at Newport, Rhode Island.

The Confederacy constructed torpedo boats, tending to be small, fast steam launches equipped with spar torpedoes, to attack the blockading fleet.

The Navy Department had not provided active support for Lee's experiments, but their successful result led to the use of spar torpedoes on ships throughout the fleet.

They had a rate of fire of about 30 rounds per minute The ship was initially armed with spar torpedoes, but they were removed shortly after completion.

On June 10, 1877 six torpedo boats, five of which were armed with spar torpedoes, attempted to attack four ironclads of the Turkish Navy.

The spar torpedoes were replaced with Whitehead mobile torpedoes, which could be launched from the torpedo boats by means of dropping gear amidships.

The first designs rammed enemy ships with explosive spar torpedoes, and later designs launched self-propelled Whitehead torpedoes.

Spar torpedoes were also massively used by the Russian forces under vice-admiral Stepan Makarov during the Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878.

Their spar torpedoes expended, the two French torpedo boats drifted downriver after making their attack, towards the anchorage of the neutral vessels off Losing Island.

Watts and Gardiner credit the ship with three spar torpedoes as well as three towed torpedoes, but these are not mentioned by Wright or Silverstone.

The spar torpedoes in the bow were replaced by underwater torpedo tubes for Whitehead torpedoes and the ship's propellers and rudder were also replaced.

What made this flotilla unusual, and hence its appellation of "special", was that the boats were armed with spar torpedoes, a highly controversial weapon of war that some considered "uncivilized".

And I personally think you need to squelch any idea about a submarine before it even gets started-hopeless, that is-but Justinian's ideas about spar torpedoes strike me as having some promise.

Under heavy Chinese rifle fire, Duboc and Gourdon made an extremely dangerous approach and successfully exploded their spar torpedoes against Yuyuans hull, crippling the Chinese frigate.

Vessels constructed included: a triple turreted monitor, a class of paddlewheel propelled monitors, a class of semi-submersible monitors, and a class of monitors armed with spar torpedoes.