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Torpedo Manual for HM Fleet 1909, Volume III

Addenda (1911) to Torpedo Manual Vol. III., 1909

1912

 

Repository
Document ID
Pages
Dimensions
Plates
ADM 186/366
180

15cm x 24cm
20

My copy of this document is a black and white photocopy of an original (copy No. 43) at TNA.  The promulgation instructions notes on page 2a bear a date of Feb 22, 1912, and page 2 has instructions for how its contents are to be referenced from the manual it augments (paragraphs that have been altered should have a letter A written in the margin next to them to draw readers' attention to this book).

The nature of this book is to act as additions (and a few corrections or amendments) to an earlier manual whose content is only partially out of date.  The pages of this book, then, are full of sections marked with a page number and paragraph from the Torpedo Manual for HM Fleet 1909, Volume III indicating if the section is to replace the original or to be placed before or after it.  In this sense, this volume serves as editorial instructions for adapting the earlier printing to bring it up to date.

 

GENERAL CONTENTS

 
PRELIMINARY CHAPTER
CHAPTER I. --  General Description of a Torpedo.
CHAPTER II. --  Pistols, Primers, &c., War, Exercising and Collision Heads , &c.
CHAPTER III. -- Air Vessels.
CHAPTER IV. --  Balance Chambers.
CHAPTER V. --  Servomotors and their Connections to the Horizontal Rudders.
CHAPTER VI. --  Horizontal Rudder Adjustments.
CHAPTER VII. --  Controlling Gear.
CHAPTER VIII. --  Air Leads, and the Valves through which the Air Passes on its way to the Engines .
CHAPTER IX. -- Counters, Air Levers, Sinking Valves, and Impact Stopping Gear.
CHAPTER X. --  Engines, Heater Systems, and Propeller Shafting.
CHAPTER XI. --  After Bodies, Tails, and Propellers.
CHAPTER XII. --  General Information of Various Types of Torpedoes.
CHAPTER XIII. --  Maintaining, Repair, Stowage and Transport of Torpedoes.
(new) CHAPTER XIV. --  Running Torpedoes in a Ship
CHAPTER XV. --  The Gyroscope.
CHAPTER XVI. --  Discharges.
CHAPTER XVII. --  Submerged Torpedo Tubes.
CHAPTER XVIII. --  Air Service.
CHAPTER XIX. -- Running of Torpedoes at a Range.
CHAPTER XX. --  The Director.
CHAPTER XXI. -- Net Defence, Booms and Obsrtuctions.

LIST OF PLATES

      To face page
I.
  
Outlines of different pistols
16
  
II.
  
21-inch Warhead with Pistol
16
  
III.
   Delay Action Sealing Plate
22
  
IV.
   Combined Depth and Roll Recorder
27
  
V.
   Apparatus for testing Fiume Hydrostatic Valve Springs
37
  
VI.
  
Reducer Adjustments
56
  
VII.
  
Reducer Adjustments
56
  
VIII.
  
Diagram of R.G.F. Heater System
64
  
IX.
  
Igniters
65
  
X.
   Method of Transporting 21-inch Torpedoes
83
  
XI.
   S.F. Pistol and Primer fitted for Live Practice
97
  
XII.
   Air-driven Gyroscope
116
  
XIII.
   21-inch Above-water Tube
127
  
XIV.
   Automatic Tripper-raising Mechanism
128
  
XV.
   21-inch Broadside Submerged Tube
147
  
XVI.
   Interlocking Gear, 21-inch Tube
145
  
XVII.
   Interlocking Gear, 21-inch Tube
145
  
XVIII.
   Solenoid Stern Tube Firing Gear
153
  
XIX.
   Air Service, H.M.S. "Hercules"
161
  
XX.
   Telescopic Director
171
  

Notes