Category:18-in Torpedo (UK)

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The Royal Navy started testing and using 18-in torpedoes in 1890.

In 1894, various net cutters and on the 18-in torpedoes proved able to penetrate netting 64 times in 67 trials. The 14-in torpedoes only managed 32/42.[1]

Footnotes

  1. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1894. p. 80.