Terrible Enemy that lies hidden in sea. Here we see a submarine in actual war. It is attacking a battleship, and has just struck the great vessel with a torpedo. But the battleship is unable to reply, for the mysterious submarine is hurling its death-dealing missiles beneath the waves, quite out of sight of its opponent. The artist has drawn the submarine in sections to show what the inside is like. When a ship is moving, a torpedo is never fired directly at her. A torpedo travels very slowly compared with a shot from a gun, and because of this, a ship could steam of out of danger if the torpedo were aimed directly at her. It is therefore aimed a little ahead of the ship, so that the vessel and the torpedo may reach the same spot together and thus the torpedo may strike the vessel and sink it.
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Terrible Enemy that lies hidden in sea. Here we see a submarine in actual war. It is attacking a battleship, and has just struck the great vessel with a torpedo. But the battleship is unable to reply, for the mysterious submarine is hurling its death-dealing missiles beneath the waves, quite out of sight of its opponent. The artist has drawn the submarine in sections to show what the inside is like. When a ship is moving, a torpedo is never fired directly at her. A torpedo travels very slowly compared with a shot from a gun, and because of this, a ship could steam of out of danger if the torpedo were aimed directly at her. It is therefore aimed a little ahead of the ship, so that the vessel and the torpedo may reach the same spot together and thus the torpedo may strike the vessel and sink it.

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UMG25A06_065

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Submarine warship attack battleship naval warfare 20th century torpedo diagram firing

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