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Torpedo
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Author : Roger Branfill-Cook
language : en
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-27
Torpedo written by Roger Branfill-Cook and has been published by Seaforth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-27 with History categories.
The torpedo was the greatest single game-changer in the history of naval warfare. For the first time it allowed any small, cheap torpedo-firing vessel Ð and by extension a small, minor navy Ð to threaten the largest and most powerful warships afloat. The
Torpedoes And Torpedo Warfare
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Author : Charles William Sleeman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
Torpedoes And Torpedo Warfare written by Charles William Sleeman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Torpedoes categories.
Torpedoes And Torpedo Vessels
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Author : Sir George Elliot Armstrong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
Torpedoes And Torpedo Vessels written by Sir George Elliot Armstrong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Torpedo-boats categories.
Torpedoes And Torpedo Warfare
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Author : Charles William Sleeman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
Torpedoes And Torpedo Warfare written by Charles William Sleeman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with Naval art and science categories.
Bureau Of Ordnance Torpedo Research And Development
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Author : J. A. Snackenberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1951
Bureau Of Ordnance Torpedo Research And Development written by J. A. Snackenberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with Torpedoes categories.
Hellions Of The Deep
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Author : Robert Gannon
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 1996
Hellions Of The Deep written by Robert Gannon and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
Ultimately, World War II was the first war won by technology, but within only a few weeks after the war began, the U.S. Navy realized its torpedo program was a dismal failure. Submarine skippers reported that most of their torpedoes were either missing the targets or failing to explode if they did hit. The United States had to work fast if it expected to compete with the Japanese Long Lance, the biggest and fastest torpedo in the world, and Germany's electric and sonar models. Hellions of the Deep tells the dramatic story of how Navy planners threw aside the careful procedures of peacetime science and initiated &"radical research&": gathering together the nation's best scientists and engineers in huge research centers and giving them freedom of experimentation to create sophisticated weaponry with a single goal&—winning the war. The largest center for torpedo work was a requisitioned gymnasium at Harvard University, where the most famous names in science worked with the best graduate students from all around the country at the business of war. They had to produce tangible weapons, to consider production and supply tactics, to take orders from the military, and, in many cases, also to teach the military how to use the weapons they developed. World War II grew into a chess match played by scientists and physicists, and it became the only war in history to be won by weapons invented during the conflict. For this book, Robert Gannon conducted numerous interviews over a twenty-year period with scientists, engineers, physicists, submarine skippers, and Navy bureaucrats, all involved in the development of the advanced weapons technology that won the war. While the search for new weapons was deadly serious, stretching imagination and resourcefulness to the limit each day, the need was obvious: American ships were being blown up daily just outside the Boston harbor. These oral histories reveal that, in retrospect, surprising even to those who went through it, the search for the &"hellions of the deep&" was, for many, the most exciting period of their lives.
21 Inch Submerged Torpedo Tube Mark 59 Mods 1 2 3 And 4
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Author : United States. Bureau of Naval Weapons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
21 Inch Submerged Torpedo Tube Mark 59 Mods 1 2 3 And 4 written by United States. Bureau of Naval Weapons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Torpedoes categories.
Torpedoes For National Defence
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Author : William Henry Jaques
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
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Torpedo Technology
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Author : Louis Gerken
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Torpedo Technology written by Louis Gerken and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
Iron Men And Tin Fish
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Author : Anthony Newpower
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2006-08-30
Iron Men And Tin Fish written by Anthony Newpower and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-30 with History categories.
From the American entry into World War II until September 1943, U.S. submarines experienced an abnormally high number of torpedo failures. These failures resulted from three defects present in the primary torpedo of the day, the Mark XIV. These defects were a tendency to run deeper than the set depth, the frequent premature detonation of the Mark 6 magnetic influence exploder, and the failure of the contact exploder when hitting a target at the textbook ninety-degree angle. Ironically, despite using a completely independent design, the Germans experienced the same three defects. The Germans, however, fixed their defects in six months, while it took the Americans twenty-two months. Much of the delay on the American side resulted from the denial of senior leaders in the operational forces and in the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance (BuOrd) that the torpedo itself was defective. Instead, they blamed crews for poor marksmanship or lack of training. In the end, however, the submarine force itself overcame the bureaucratic inertia and correctly identified and fixed the three problems on their own, proving once again the industry of the average American soldier or sailor. From the American entry into World War II until September 1943, U.S. submarines experienced an abnormally high number of torpedo failures. These failures resulted from three defects present in the primary torpedo of the day, the Mark XIV. These defects were a tendency to run deeper than the set depth, the frequent premature detonation of the magnetic influence exploder, and the failure of the contact exploder when hitting a target at the textbook 90-degree angle. Ironically, despite using a completely independent design, the Germans experienced the same three defects. The Germans, however, fixed their defects in six months, while it took the Americans 22 months. Much of the delay on the American side resulted from the denial of senior leaders in the operational forces and in the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance (BuOrd) that the torpedo itself was defective. Instead, they blamed crews for poor marksmanship or lack of training. In the end, however, the submarine force itself overcame the bureaucratic inertia and correctly identified and fixed the three problems on their own, proving once again the industry of the average American soldier or sailor. Contrary to the interpretations of most submarine historians, this book concludes that BuOrd did not sit idly by while torpedoes failed on patrol after patrol. BuOrd acknowledged problems from early in the war, but their processes and their tunnel vision prevented them from realizing that the weapon sent to the fleet was grossly defective. One of World War II's forgotten heroes, Admiral Lockwood drove the process for finding and fixing the three major defects. This is first book that deals exclusively with the torpedo problem, building its case out of original research from the archives of the Bureau of Ordnance, the Chief of Naval Operations, Vice Admiral Lockwood's personal correspondence, and records from the British Admiralty at the National Archives of the United Kingdom. These sources are complemented by correspondence and interviews with men who actually participated in the events.