38 Verbs to Use for the Word torpedoes

After ten minutes we got near enough to fire our torpedo.

Undoubtedly, then, the great battles in the present war, on the water at least, may be decided by these silently moving, dinky sized, almost imperceptible submarines which carry the ever-destroying torpedoes.

Directly behind the single dreadnaught and the battleships came a flotilla of submarines, ready to dash forward at the proper moment and launch their deadly torpedoes.

To veer out cable was dangerous, for it was not known how near the ship was to sunken torpedoes; to allow her to drag was to run the double chance of striking a torpedo or going ashore.

The methods hitherto proposed for propelling torpedoes have been by means of carbonic acid or other compressed gas carried by the torpedoes, and by means of electricity conveyed by a conductor leading from a controlling station to electrical apparatus carried by the torpedo.

This time I sent a second torpedo after the first to make the strike doubly certain.

In the "Destroyer" the means of offence was a single gun for discharging a torpedo under water at the bow.

Of the others, some ran aground on the bank, some were sunk, and not one succeeded in exploding her torpedo near a Spanish vessel.

Another invention turned a ship about with her prow facing the torpedo, so that it would be most likely to go plowing and not hit her, as it would with broadside on.

The men aboard the attacked ship have no warning of their impending death except a thin sheaf of water that follows on the surface in the wake of the submerged torpedo and which lasts only an instant. RUN BY COMPRESSED AIR By a compressed air arrangement motive power is furnished the torpedo in transit for its propellers.

"The Germans haven't got a torpedo to touch yours yet, and we're still a long way ahead of 'em in ships.

"In the common method of defending itself against a submarine attack, it steamed in a zigzag course, and this made it necessary for me to hold my torpedoes until I could lay a true course for them, which also made it necessary for me to get nearer to the Cressy.

We should be cautious not to infer that torpedoes made a satisfactory defense alone, as they must be protected by large and small guns, and they form only a part of the chain of general defenses.

Commander Davis of the United States navy invented the torpedo that carries its power undiminished into the interior of the vessel.

And it cannot be too widely noted that after the Huns had become suspicious the "Q" boat had to invite a torpedo as a preliminary to real business.

In our description we have only given the main features of the invention, the inventor having mentioned to us, in confidence, several improvements designed to perfect the details of his invention, among which we may mention the steering arrangement and arrangements for attacking a vessel provided with what our contemporary, Engineering, not inaptly terms a "crinoline," i. e., a network for keeping off torpedoes.

It soon got into effective range and loosed its torpedo and with deadly effect on a German battleship.

Meanwhile, the launches had entered the channel and were picking up such torpedoes as could be detected.

To prevent these torpedoes from being exploded by the enemy, the surface over them should be covered by plenty of guns.

We must endeavour to keep this position, especially as regards the torpedoes, in which, according to the newspaper accounts, other nations are competing with us, by trying to excel us in range of the projectile at high velocity.

The immense ransom demanded must be raised and paid, or the work of destruction would be resumed until the defenders of the bay removed their torpedoes from the Narrows and permitted the Spanish forces to enter and occupy the metropolis.

"You may possibly have heard, Mr. HewittI know there are rumorsof the new locomotive torpedo which the government is about adopting; it is, in fact, the Dixon torpedo, my own invention, and in every respectnot merely in my own opinion, but in that of the government expertsby far the most efficient and certain yet produced.

'Yes, I'll save my torpedoes while I can.

Still, the infernal impudence and treachery of his selling my beautiful torpedo to the Germans filled me with a furious anger such as I had not felt since I crouched, dripping and hunted, in the Walkham woods.

"The whole affair had taken less than one hour from the time of shooting off the first torpedo until the Cressy went to the bottom.

38 Verbs to Use for the Word  torpedoes