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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Torpedo_boatTorpedo boat - Wikipedia

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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 .

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_torpedo_boats_ofList of torpedo boats of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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   List of torpedo boats of the United States Navy. This list of steam-driven torpedo boats of the United States Navy includes all ships with the hull classification symbol TB, running from TB-1 of 1890 to TB-35 of 1901. It does not include the Patrol Torpedo (PT) boats of World War II .

   Hull No.	Ship Name	Shipyard	Laid Down
   TB-9	Dahlgren	Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine	11 December 1897
   TB-10	Craven	Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine	6 December 1897
   TB-11	Farragut	Union Iron Works, San Francisco	26 July 1897
   TB-12	Davis	Wolf & Zwicker, Portland, Oregon	2 March 1897

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4. www.history.navy.mil › navy-torpedoesNavy’s Use of Torpedoes - NHHC

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   Nov 28, 2023 · 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 Revolution, kegs of gunpowder took the place of ships in the 1778 Battle of the Kegs. The first American use of the torpedo dates back to 1775 when David Bushnell discovered gunpowder could explode ...

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6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › PT_boatPT boat - Wikipedia

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   PT-105, an 80' Elco boat, under way. 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 ...

7. www.history.navy.mil › u-s-navy-pt-boatsU.S. Navy PT Boats - NHHC

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   Jun 3, 2014 · U.S. Navy PT Boats. PT 109 was one of the hundreds of motor torpedo boats (PT) of the PT 103 class completed between 1942 and 1945 by Elco Naval Division of Electric Boat Company at Bayonne,...

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   Who invented the torpedo?

   • The first American use of the torpedo dates back to 1775 when David Bushnell discovered gunpowder could explode underwater. His submarine the Turtle fastened a 150-pound mine to Lord Howe’s flagship but the attack was unsuccessful. Robert Fulton continued Bushnell’s work when he developed floating mines that were anchored to the ocean’s floor.

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   How many torpedoes did the Russian Navy use in WW2?

   • During the war the Imperial Russian Navy in addition to their other warships, deployed 86 torpedo boats and launched 27 torpedoes (from all warships) in three major campaigns, scoring 5 hits.

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   What was the first warship to carry a self-propelled torpedo?

   • The first warship of any kind to carry self-propelled torpedoes was HMS Vesuvius of 1873. The first seagoing vessel designed to fire the self-propelled Whitehead torpedo was HMS Lightning. The boat was built by John Thornycroft at Church Wharf in Chiswick for the Royal Navy.

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   What was the purpose of a thrown torpedo?

   • The idea was the torpedo attacked what it heard. The Mk 24, nicknamed “Fido,” was responsible for sinking approximately 15 percent of enemy submarines from 1943 to war’s end. In the early 1950s, the thrown torpedo was developed. They were built to detect enemy submarines coming too close to ship convoys or U.S. ports.

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9. www.nps.gov › articles › 000PT Boats of World War II: From Home Front to Battle

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   PT (Patrol, Torpedo) boats were small, fast, and expendable vessels for short range oceanic scouting, armed with torpedoes and machine guns for cutting enemy supply lines and harassing enemy forces.

10. www.britannica.com › technology › torpedo-boatTorpedo boat | Britannica

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    Torpedo boat | Britannica. Contents. torpedo boat. Also known as: PT boat, motor torpedo boat, patrol torpedo boat. Learn about this topic in these articles: Assorted References. work of Wood. In Garfield Arthur Wood. …with devising the small, swift PT (patrol torpedo) boats of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Read More. development of. naval ships.