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Show FIVE CLASSES OF TORPEDOES All Equally Deadly If Only They Hit tha Mark. There are five rlaasra of torpedoes. The curliest form waa a stationary submarine nilnp. usually exploded be- j heath a ihlp hy actual contact. Such mines are still used for harbor de- j ftnrc. hut sometime they ara fired by nicclisnleal means from ahore at the moment a hostile vessel la pasa-Inn pasa-Inn nvr them. The spar torpedo, 1 alo Hill used, consists of an ex- ploslio charge rsrrlcd at the end of a long spar In a boat a bows, the craft being rowed do; e up to tha doomed vessel and the charge exploded. explod-ed. The towing- torpedo, aa Ita name Implies, was towrd along and ma neitw-red ao aa to explode underneath an enemy's vcs.el. thla kind being to turn followed by the trim self .propelling .propell-ing torpedo, the Whitehead, now In pi ncrnl ue. The laat form which tired he noticed la tha Hrennan, whose movements can ba controlled from the ahore. |