The coal torpedo was a hollow iron casting filled with explosives and covered in coal dust, deployed by the Confederate Secret Service during the American...

naval mines, and "coal torpedoes" (bombs disguised as chunks of coal, intended to destroy boilers). Created at the same time as the Torpedo Bureau, the Submarine...

sabotage of an exploding coal torpedo in the firebox was pure bravado. Thomas Edgeworth Courtenay, the inventor of the coal torpedo, was a former resident...

William Streetor to have planted a coal torpedo, an artillery shell disguised to look like an innocuous lump of coal, in a coal pile used to fire the steamboat's...

Confederate Secret Service and the inventor of the coal torpedo, a bomb disguised as a lump of coal that was used to attack Union steam-powered warships...

armed torpedo boats designed to destroy other torpedo boats". Although the term "destroyer" had been used interchangeably with "TBD" and "torpedo boat...

A torpedo bulkhead is a type of naval armor common on the more heavily armored warships, especially battleships and battlecruisers of the early 20th century...

(1822–1875), member of the Confederate Secret Service and inventor of the coal torpedo Tom Courtenay (born 1937), English actor Tom Courtenay (EP), by Yo La...

included an attack by the Fenians, a lost torpedo, and a coal gas explosion. An enquiry in September 1881 concluded coal gas was the cause. In November 1881...

factories by the rats but is probably a myth. Anti-tank dog Bat bomb Coal torpedoes Military animals Stephen Bull (1 October 2009). Special Ops, 1939–1945:...

earlier torpedo boats for Japan which were designed by Sir Edward John Reed. In 1904, Kotaka was experimentally refitted with a mixed oil and coal engine...

เรือหลวงทยานชล), and three Normand-type torpedo boats from Kawasaki for the Royal Thai Navy, but with oil-fired boilers rather than coal-fired. The initial ships were...

longer distances. Newer models of torpedo had longer ranges. For instance, in 1903, the US Navy ordered a design of torpedo effective to 4,000 yards (3,700 m)...

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The Tumleren class was a class of three torpedo boats built for the Royal Danish Navy. The lead ship of the class, Tumleren was designed and built by...

The Bainbridge-class destroyers were a class of United States Navy Torpedo Boat Destroyers (TBDs) built between 1899 and 1903. The first class so designated...

The German V1-class torpedo boats was a class of 26 large torpedo boats in service with the Imperial German Navy, Reichsmarine, Kriegsmarine and Royal...

hours of 25 October 1944. Fusō burned and sank within an hour of being torpedoed. Yamashiro encountered six U.S. Navy battleships and eight cruisers, sinking...

The Shirataka (”White hawk”) was a 1st class torpedo boat (suiraitei) of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was ordered under the Ten Year Naval Expansion...

The Örnen class (English: Eagle class) was a class of five torpedo cruisers built for the Swedish Navy between 1896 and 1899. All of the cruisers participated...

Abdül Hamid was powered by a coal-fired 250 hp Lamm steam engine turning a single screw. It carried two 356mm torpedo tubes and two 35mm machine guns...

The S90 class of torpedo boats was a group of large torpedo boats built for the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) in the early 20th century. They...

submerged torpedo tubes, two on each broadside and one in the stern. Twenty-three torpedoes were carried for them. In addition six 14 in (356 mm) torpedoes were...

combustion of the coal bunkers, but the Sampson Board ruled that the explosion had been caused by an external explosion from a torpedo. The episode focused...

Dryad-class torpedo gunboat was the last class of torpedo gunboat built for the Royal Navy. This type of vessel was rapidly replaced by the faster torpedo boat...

to make use of the naval ram, the torpedo, or sometimes both (as in the case with smaller ships and later torpedo boats), which several naval designers...

The Smith-class destroyers were the first ocean-going torpedo-boat destroyers in the United States Navy, and the first to be driven by steam turbines...

the tug USS Uncas. The bow of the tug penetrated one foot into the torpedo boat's coal bunker, bending in two frames and crushing the side plating to below...

merchant vessels in 1920. The as-built torpedo armament was two 18-inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes with four torpedoes. The gun armament was two 3-inch (76 mm)/50...

Hull in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea for Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo boats and fired on them, also firing on each other in the chaos of the...