The Bliss-Leavitt Mark 3 torpedo was a

Bliss-Leavitt torpedo The Bliss-Leavitt torpedo was a torpedo designed by Frank McDowell Leavitt and manufactured by the E. W. Bliss Company of Brooklyn, New York. It was put into service by the United States Navy in 1904 and variants of the design would remain in its ...

adopted by the

United States 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 ...

in 1906 for use in an anti-surface ship role.

Characteristics

The Bliss-Leavitt Mark 3 was very similar to the

Bliss-Leavitt Mark 2 torpedo The Bliss-Leavitt Mark 2 torpedo was a Bliss-Leavitt torpedo adopted by the United States Navy for use in an anti-surface ship role after the E. W. Bliss Company of Brooklyn, New York, which had been building Whitehead torpedoes for the US Navy, ...

. The primary difference was a longer range of 4000 yards. Approximately 200 Mark 3s were produced for the US Navy. The Bliss-Leavitt Mark 3 was launched from battleships,

torpedo boat 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 ...

s and cruisers.

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