Torpedo vessels for foreign service should, under the present difficulties of keeping iron from oxidizing and fouling, be built of timber. For home service, vessels constructed of iron would be preferable, and with very reduced masts, to enable them to pass under the yards of a vessel. One or two light guns, to bring-to an unarmed vessel, and for signal purposes, on the weather-deck, and fired over all.
Plate 3.
Kell Bros. Lith. London.
AN IRON CLAD FLEET SURPRISED AT SEA BY A SQUADRON OF TORPEDO CRAFT ARMED WITH HARVEY’S SEA TORPEDOES.
LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.