14-in Fiume Mark I Torpedo

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The 14-in Fiume Mark I Torpedo was an early torpedo manufactured by the Whitehead & Co..

By the end of 1884, the Royal Navy had purchased 225 of them as it sought to compare Whitehead-manufactured specimens with their domestically licensed weapons built at the Royal Laboratory.[1]

These torpedoes, along with 14-in torpedoes R.L. Marks I-III and Fiume Marks I-II were deemed obsolete in 1892.[2]

An extensive report on torpedoes being adjusted at the test ranges shows they are not in use in 1896.[3]

Mark I*

Some time before the end of 1884, 50 Mark Is had been altered to this standard and 49 more were under alteration at Fiume.[4]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1884. p. 47.
  2. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1892. p. viii.
  3. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1896. pp. 42-44.
  4. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1884. p. 47.

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