14-in Mark I Torpedo (UK)

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The 14-in R.L. Mark I Torpedo was an early British torpedo manufactured by the Royal Laboratory.

A total of 236 were manufactured between 1876 and 1880, at which time production was switching over to the Mark II torpedoes.[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*

115 of these were apparently made by altering Mark I torpedoes, some time before the end of 1884.[3]

Mark I**

34 of these were apparently made by altering Mark I or Mark I* torpedoes, some time before the end of 1884.[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, 1884. p. 47.
  4. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1884. p. 47.

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