Published Resources Details Letters Patent
- Title
- Improved apparatus for carrying and exploding submarine torpedoes & c
- Imprint
- United states Patent Office, 14 March 1865
- Description
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.46,852.
Accession No.1288
- Abstract
"Our invention consists of a spar for holding at the end of a torpedo, a sleeve for the reception of the spar, and a shaft or trunnion attached to the sleeve, the whole being constructed and applied to a vessel, substantially as described hereinafter, and the spar being controlled by ropes or chains, substantially as described hereinafter, that it can be made to carry a torpedo outward from the vessel, submerge the same, and can be drawn back prior to the explosion of the torpedo."