Published Resources Details Letters Patent
- Title
- Device for launching rocket-torpedoes
- Imprint
- United States Patent Office, 13 March 1883
- Description
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,068, Application filed January 15
Accession No.1326
- Abstract
"The present invention and its object have been described in a pending application filed by me April 19, 1882, which object is the detaching of a rocket-float, when desired, from shipboard or from coverts on the shore. What I claim is- A torpedo-boat having detaching-davits carried in an armour-plate or protected recess… A swinging detaching davit provided with guide rails…"