Diagram of common elements of warship armor. The belt armor (A) is on the exterior, at the waterline. Also indicated is the main deck (B), the sloping deck armor (C), and the torpedo bulkhead (D).
A torpedo bulkhead is a type of naval armor common on the more heavily armored warships, especially battleships and battlecruisers of the early 20th century. It is designed to keep the ship afloat even if the hull is struck underneath the belt armor by a shell or by a torpedo.
A torpedobulkhead is a type of naval armor common on the more heavily armored warships, especially battleships and battlecruisers of the early 20th century...
designed to protect against shellfire; torpedo belts, bulges, and bulkheads protect against underwater torpedoes or naval mines; and armoured decks protect...
Frequently, the main belt's armor plates were supplemented with a torpedobulkhead spaced several meters behind the main belt, designed to maintain the...
Torpedobulkhead, a type of armor plate or protective covering designed to keep a ship afloat even if the hull is struck by a shell or by a torpedo Bulkhead...
Tennessee-class battleships introduced anti-torpedo bulges. Most later capital ships would have at least one torpedobulkhead inboard of the external hull plating...
shell struck below the armoured belt and exploded on contact with the torpedobulkhead, completely flooding a turbo-generator room and partially flooding...
submerged torpedo tubes. One tube was mounted in the bow, another in the stern, and two on each broadside, on either end of the torpedobulkhead. The ship's...
11,431 t (11,250 long tons) at deep load. The hull was divided by 15 bulkheads into 16 watertight compartments. The unfinished ship (some 28% complete)...
pp. 191–192 This included "anti-torpedobulkheads extending to double bottom" that were "able to absorb 53 cm torpedo hits". See: Noot (1980), p. 243...
ranged from 9 to 15 inches (230 to 380 mm) in thickness. A three-inch torpedobulkhead was placed 9 feet 6 inches (2.9 m) inboard from the ship's side and...
the waterline, penetrated several light bulkheads and fetched up, without exploding, against the torpedobulkhead. The second board considered this theory...
Like the armored cruiser Blücher before her, she was protected by a torpedobulkhead, 25 mm (0.98 in) thick. It was set back a distance of 4 meters (13 ft)...
high-speed stream of water into the breach which can destroy bulkheads and machinery in its path. A torpedo fitted with a proximity fuze can be detonated directly...
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