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]

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.[3]

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, 1884. p. 47.

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