A weapon consisting of a bomb placed at the end of a long pole, or spar, and attached to a boat
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A steamboat with a spar torpedo, in transport positionThe Confederate torpedo boat CSS David showing the spar torpedo mounted to the bowExplosive charge lashed to the boom of a spar torpedo
A spar torpedo is a weapon consisting of a bomb placed at the end of a long pole, or spar, and attached to a boat. The weapon is used by running the end of the spar into the enemy ship. Spar torpedoes were often equipped with a barbed spear at the end, so it would stick to wooden hulls. A fuse could then be used to detonate it.
A spartorpedo is a weapon consisting of a bomb placed at the end of a long pole, or spar, and attached to a boat. The weapon is used by running the end...
ramming enemy ships with explosive spartorpedoes. Later evolutions launched variants of self-propelled Whitehead torpedoes. These were inshore craft created...
threat from the spartorpedo was taken seriously. The U.S. Navy converted four of its monitors to become turretless armored spar-torpedo vessels while under...
Romanian spartorpedo boat Rândunica attacked and sank the Ottoman river monitor Seyfi. This was the first instance in history when a torpedo boat sank...
consisted of three gunboats: Ştefan cel Mare, România and Fulgerul and one spartorpedo boat, Rândunica. The three gunboats displaced 352, 130 and 85 tons respectively...
guns in their turrets, they also were equipped with torpedoes. Early designs incorporated a spartorpedo that could be extended from the bow and detonated...
and torpedo boats. In the 1880s, in response to the Russian scares, coastal defences were established, a mine-laying steamer was ordered, and spar torpedo...
to break holes in the hull of enemy ships, and an electrically fired spartorpedo, fixed at the end of a pole, though later Admiral Bourgeois (who was...
crew. Her only casualty in combat occurred when she was struck by a spartorpedo carried by the CSS David. Eight crewmen were awarded the Medal of Honor...
direct enemy fire. They were equipped with torpedoes and guns in turrets. Early designs incorporated a spartorpedo that could be extended from the bow and...
replied with a blast from a shotgun and David plunged ahead to strike. Her spartorpedo detonated under the starboard quarter of the ironclad, throwing high...
Navy's first purpose-built torpedo boat—a speed record breaking steam launch with a spartorpedo, 1876. Peruvian Torpedo boats in the War of the Pacific...
letter in the Greek alphabet. USS Alpha (1864), a screw tug bearing a spartorpedo during the Civil War USS Alpha (SP-586), a motor yacht that patrolled...
of the Sino-French War. She was quickly sunk during the battle by a spartorpedo. Fuxing was the third ship to be constructed at the Foochow Arsenal,...
detection until the last moments, then embedded and remotely detonated a spartorpedo that rapidly sank the 1,240 long tons (1,260 t) sloop-of-war with the...
Whitehead torpedo, designed in 1866 by British engineer Robert Whitehead, the first practical self-propelled or "locomotive" torpedo. The spartorpedo that...
shipyard. The next ship to enter service with the Romanian Navy was the spartorpedo boat NMS Rândunica in 1875. These ships represented the Romanian Flotilla...
Fujian Fleet. Shortly after the start of the battle, she was damaged by a spartorpedo, causing a large explosion and the loss of the majority of her crew;...
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