Notes on torpedoes, offensive and defensive (1872) (14582262548)

Identifier: notesontorpedoes00stot (find matches)

Title: Notes on torpedoes, offensive and defensive

Year: 1872 (1870s)

Authors: Stotherd, Richard Hugh, 1828-1895. (from old catalog)

Subjects: Torpedoes Submarine mines

Publisher: Washington, Govt. Print. Off.

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ved bypulling the cord or wire attached to it; the guard will thenfall away from the primer. By bringing the guard-ring tothe surface the operator will, therefore, know that the mineis in working order. Different modes This primer may be arranged for the ignition of a mine of arrangement for . use with a mim. at will from the shore, as shown in Fig. 30; or by the con-tact of a passing vessel, as shown in Fig. 28 and 29. This form of fuse is now an article of military store, andmay be issued on requisition.Detects ot me- The great defect of all forms of self-acting mechanicalfuses, is the danger, almost inseparable from them, of acci-dental ignition ; a blow given by accident in handling theseaffairs may produce a most disastrous explosion, and thereis consequently a considerable amount of danger to beincurred in placing them in position, and still more in clear-ing them away. In the form recommended by the floatingobstruction committee, security is to a certain extent ob- chanical fus

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