Lucia Cheng, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2022 The Orcas lack a sail, giving them more of a torpedo-like appearance, but can raise a sensor and communications mast from a position flush with the hull.
2022 Lewis’ masterwork made a trip through the storage room of a shopping mall, a saloon, a golf course, a junkyard and a torpedo plant, all before being finding a home at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. 2022 Eight minutes after being hit by the torpedo, destroyer sank with two officers and 62 crew members still onboard. convoy that was targeted by German U-boats and hit by a torpedo.įrances Stead Sellers, Washington Post, 22 July 2022 South Korea formally accuses North Korea of firing a torpedo to sink the Cheonan, a South Korean Navy ship, in March, killing 46 sailors.
2022 In 1943, the family moved again, this time to California, after crossing the Atlantic in a U.S. 2022 But on December 6, 1917, the ship was struck by a German torpedo about 20 miles east of Start Point, England. 2022 This there is a special raffle for a trip for four people on Chippewa Lake aboard Keith Riedel’s handcrafted 22′6″ wooden torpedo-back speedboat. Noun Jacob Jones was a Tucker-class destroyer equipped with four 4-inch guns and eight 533mm torpedo tubes. Bushnell was reported to have named the vessel “American Turtle or Torpedo.” He didn’t stick with the appellation, but it likely informed Robert Fulton’s use of torpedo for his own underwater explosive devices in the early 19th century, and it laid the groundwork for the word’s application to Whitehead’s torpedo. In 1776 a small submersible vessel developed by American inventor David Bushnell was used (unsuccessfully) in an assault on a British ship in New York harbor.
(The ancient Greeks reportedly used electric rays to numb the pain of surgery and childbirth.) The most familiar use of torpedo today, referring specifically to the cylindrical underwater naval weapon, dates to the 1866 development of the self-propelled torpedo by British engineer Robert Whitehead-but that use built on a century-old employment of torpedo in referring to another invention. When English speakers borrowed the Latin word, it was to apply it with this second meaning in early 16th century English torpedo referred to those round-bodied short-tailed rays that are naturally equipped with a pair of electric organs. It refers to a state of inertness, sluggishness, or lethargy, and it refers to a creature also known as the electric ray. Torpedo comes to English by way of Latin torpēdō, which has two quite different meanings.
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