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A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle. The first designs were steam-powered craft dedicated to ramming enemy ships with explosive spar torpedoes. Later evolutions launched variants of self-propelled Whitehead torpedoes.
A motor torpedo boat is a fast torpedo boat, especially of the mid 20th century. The motor in the designation originally referred to their use of petrol engines, typically marinised aircraft engines or their derivatives, which distinguished them from other naval craft of the era, including other torpedo boats, that used steam turbines or ...
A PT boat (short for patrol torpedo boat) was a motor torpedo boat used by the United States Navy in World War II. It was small, fast, and inexpensive to build, valued for its maneuverability and speed but hampered at the beginning of the war by ineffective torpedoes, limited armament, and comparatively fragile construction that ...
May 29, 2018 · Torpedo Boats. Functionally descended from Federico Gianibelli's sixteenth‐century fireships, torpedo boats first emerged in the United States as semisubmersible bearers of “infernal machines,” directed by David Bushnell's Turtle and Robert Fulton 's Mute against British blockaders during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.
Warship - Destroyer, Armament, Torpedo: The self-propelled torpedo had its greatest impact on the design of small surface ships. Beginning in the 1880s, many nations built hundreds of small steam torpedo boats on the theory that they could bar coastal waters to any enemy.
Jun 7, 2024 · The earliest known use of the torpedo dates back to 1585 by the Dutch, which was actually a ship packed with explosives. The torpedo is a direct descendant of the mine. During the American...
Aug 30, 2024 · torpedo, cigar-shaped, self-propelled underwater missile, launched from a submarine, surface vessel, or airplane and designed for exploding upon contact with the hulls of surface vessels and submarines.
A torpedo-boat is small war vessel fitted to use the torpedo as its primary weapon of attack. The principal requirements of a torpedo boat are high speed, efficient means of...
The forerunner of the U.S. Navy’s World War II “sentries” was a flimsy torpedo boat commanded by 21-year-old Union Lieutenant William B. Cushing, who sank the Confederate ironclad Albemarle with a spar torpedo in the Roanoke River near Plymouth, North Carolina, on 27 October 1864 (see “Firebrand of the Union Navy,” October 2013, pp ...
The Patrol Torpedo (PT) Boat of World War II fame has a place in today’s Navy. This is not a nostalgic or romantic notion but a practical solution to a very serious and vexing problem.
