Instructions for the Management of Harvey's Sea Torpedo

Plate 1.
‘Royal Sovereign’ ‘Camel’
TRIAL OF HARVEY’S SEA TORPEDO.
Kell Bros. Lith. London.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF HARVEY’S SEA TORPEDO.
LONDON: E. & F. N. SPON, 48, CHARING CROSS. PORTSMOUTH: J. GRIFFIN & CO. DEVONPORT: J. R. H. SPRY. 1871.

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

To impart a thorough knowledge of the management of such an arm as the sea torpedo is a matter of easy accomplishment by personal explanation; especially so, when the arm is in the water, and practised with under conditions that would obtain in its application to the disabling of, or to the destruction of vessels against which it may be employed.
But in the absence of such mode of instruction, the following directions are offered, with a hope that they will prove sufficiently explanatory of an arm, which, like other arms, requires skill and aptitude in using it effectively.