British 24.5 Inch Torpedo
The 24.5" Mark I torpedo was a British torpedo A modern torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, and with an explosive warhead designed to detonate either on contact with or in proximity to the target. Historically, su ... carried only on ''Nelson''-class battleships. This was the type of torpedo that HMS ''Rodney'' fired at the German battleship ''Bismarck'', "the only known occasion that a battleship fired torpedoes at an enemy battleship." This torpedo design was the inspiration for the Japanese Type 93 'Long Lance' torpedoes. References {{Use dmy dates, date=June 2017 World War II naval weapons of the United Kingdom Torpedoes of the United Kingdom ...
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Torpedo
A modern torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, and with an explosive warhead designed to detonate either on contact with or in proximity to the target. Historically, such a device was called an automotive, automobile, locomotive, or fish torpedo; colloquially a ''fish''. The term ''torpedo'' originally applied to a variety of devices, most of which would today be called naval mine, mines. From about 1900, ''torpedo'' has been used strictly to designate a self-propelled underwater explosive device. While the 19th-century battleship had evolved primarily with a view to engagements between armored warships with naval artillery, large-caliber guns, the invention and refinement of torpedoes from the 1860s onwards allowed small torpedo boats and other lighter surface combatant , surface vessels, submarines/submersibles, even improvised fishing boats or frogmen, and later light aircraft, to destroy large shi ...
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