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Show NAVY TORPEDO TELLS ALL ABOUT ITSELF and ' have 'turbine 'engines which are capable of making 1760 revolutions revolu-tions per minute. In my head I carry a high explosive called gun-; gun-; cotton, which explodes upon con- -" tact. In times of peace when I . .am practiced with, the guneotton . Is taken out of my head and water Is substituted to compensate for. Its weight. ' When I have been fired ; In practice and have made my run ; and expended all my energy, I have ! Hist sufficient weight to float to the surfaos until '1 am picked up. re- . cbargecTand retired. y A. Freed, Gunner's Mats, U. S. Navy. WELL! Well! Well! I am surprised! With all the notoriety that I have . gained and the destruction that I have caused, that nobody would tell you what I am made of-, and what I ara capable of doing! I am twenty-one feet In length and twenty-one Inches In diameter and ordinarily I sm assembled In ' three parts known as the tall snd afterbody, the flask snd the head. , My tail contains the machinery . which turns the propellers that force me through the water: the flask carries my fuel in the form of, . enmressed air that aenda me on my mission of destruction and when I start wo unto them who may be In my path, for I am tha most drasded woapon that svrr , sailed the seven seas. . I cost 19000 and can run for ten thousand yards before my energy la used up, , traveling that distance at I he rate of about fifty feet per aecond. I am a monster made of forged nickel steel snd weigh ?ft00ponmls |