Invention The Patrick Torpedo (c. 1890 - )

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c. 1890

Summary

The Patrick Torpedo was essentially an improved Lay-Haight torpedo. Following a successful trial in September 1890 in which a Patrick torpedo reached a speed of twenty and one-half knots the naval board headed by Commander Theodore F. Jewell recommended the purchase of three torpedoes. Further purchases by the Navy were unlikely. However, given the range and speed of the torpedo there was the possibility that it could be used for harbour-defence.

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Published resources

Books

  • Gray, Edwyn, Nineteenth Century Torpedoes and Their Inventors, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2004. Details

Newspaper Articles

  • 'The Gun or the Torpedo', The New York Times, 27 September 1890, p. 9. Details
  • 'The Successful Trial of the Patrick Fish Torpedo', The New York Times, 27 September 1890, p. 1. Details

Sources used to compile this entry: Gray, Edwyn, Nineteenth Century Torpedoes and Their Inventors, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2004.

Prepared by: Rebecca Rigby