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36 photos tagged torpedoboats, from 3 members of Flickr Commons.

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[USS Stiletto, USS Cushing in Narragansett Bay, Herreshoff Manufacturing Company]

from SMU Libraries Digital Collections

• Aussie-Pete 4 said:

  Awesome shot !

Les torpilleurs Français et Italiens (noirs), Monaco, avril 1906

from Bibliothèque de Toulouse

• Günther Huth, ( Thank you for visit ) said:

  Good find !!! Greetings from East Germany.........

Third class torpedo boats

from SMU Libraries Digital Collections

• jdshephe46 said:

  This craft carries what is known as a spar torpedo, basically an explosive charge on the end of a long pole. The idea being that the vessel and her brave (or foolhardy) crew would attempt to sneak up to an enemy warship, and ram the charge into the hull of the enemy, detonate the charge and hope to get away in the confusion following the explosion. In some cases, spar torpedo charges had large magnets to hold the charge onto the target vessel while the torpedo boat scurried away.