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Show j "TORPS" OF THE BRITISH NAVY "Torps" is the nickname of the torpedo lieutenant on a battleship. Sir Henry Jackson, new first sea lord of the admiralty, is the "Torps" of the British navy, for he is unquestionably its leading torpedo expert. His selection se-lection as successor to Lord Fisher is recognized as most fitting, for Germany's Ger-many's naval tactics have forced England Eng-land to admit the Importance of submarine sub-marine warfare. When Sir Henry entered the navy in ISfiS the world was still chiefly thinking about the crude "spar" torpedoes tor-pedoes which Cushing and other Americans Amer-icans had used in the Civil war, with the result that Jhey were apt to blow up the torpedoer as well as the torpedoed. tor-pedoed. In 1S81 he was appointed to the Vernon, the old torpedo school-ship school-ship at Portmouth, as a young lieutenant lieu-tenant for a course of Instruction. When that was completed he was able to start his career as torpedo lieutenant lieuten-ant on a battleship, ana that soon Drought him to the command of the Vesuvius. This craft was attached tr, the Vernon as an experimental vessel and the captain of the Vesuvius showec so much zeal and knowledge that be was sent off to Flume to learn eboui the Whitehead torpedo, which waB being manufactured at the Austrian port |