Published Resources Details Journal Article
- Title
- Submarine artillery
- In
- The Engineer
- Imprint
- vol. 52, 18 November 1881, p. 369
- Description
Accession No.62
- Abstract
During a public trial of Ericsson's torpedo boat Destroyer (length 130 feet, beam 12 feet, draught 11 feet) at New York the vessel successfully discharged a projectile that travelled 600 feet under water traversing a torpedo net and striking a target placed five feet under water.