There have been a number of 18-inch torpedoes in service with the United States. These have been used on ships and submarines of the
US Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage of ...
. American "18-inch"
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 ...
es were actually in diameter, beginning with the "Fiume"
Whitehead torpedo
The Whitehead torpedo was the first self-propelled or "locomotive" torpedo ever developed. It was perfected in 1866 by Robert Whitehead from a rough design conceived by Giovanni Luppis of the Austro-Hungarian Navy in Fiume. It was driven by a th ...
of 1890.
Ship classes that carried 18-inch torpedoes include:
*
''Aylwin''-class destroyers
*
B-class through some
R-class submarines
*
''Bainbridge''-class destroyers
*
''Cassin''-class destroyers
*
''Cincinnati''-class cruisers
*
''Columbia''-class cruisers
*
''Illinois''-class battleships
*
''Indiana''-class battleships
*
''Kearsarge''-class battleships
*
''Maine''-class battleships
*
''Montgomery''-class cruisers
*
''Paulding''-class destroyers
*
''Pennsylvania''-class cruisers
*
''Plunger''-class submarines
*
''Smith''-class destroyers
*
''Truxtun''-class destroyers
See also
*
American 21-inch torpedo
There have been a number of 21-inch torpedoes in service with the United States. These have been used on ships and submarines of the U.S. Navy. American 21-inch torpedo
A modern torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below th ...
External links
Torpedo history, part 2, Naval History & Heritage Command*Navweaps links
US Torpedoes main pagePre-World War IIPost-World War II
{{US Navy torpedoes
Torpedoes
World War I naval weapons
World War II naval weapons
Torpedoes of the United States
Unmanned underwater vehicles