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"Torpedo boat" Quotes from Famous Books

... French shore, and on the second occasion when the aeroplane was quite near its destination—the motor of the Antoinette monoplane failed suddenly, and the aviator could do nothing but plane down into the water. On the first occasion he alighted neatly, suffering no injury, and being rescued by a torpedo boat; but in the second descent, striking the water hard, he was thrown forward in his seat and his head injured ...

— Learning to Fly - A Practical Manual for Beginners • Claude Grahame-White

... of torpedoes. The one which is most used in the French navy is called the "carried" torpedo (torpille portee), thus named because the torpedo boat literally carries it right under the sides of the enemy's ship. It consists of a cartridge of about 20 kilogrammes of gun cotton, placed at the extremity of an iron rod, 12 meters in length, projecting in a downward direction from the fore part of the boat. The charge is ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 • Various

... move me. The rest of the game was with the salmon. He suffered himself to be drawn, skipping with pretended delight at getting to the haven where I fain would have him. Yet no sooner did he feel shoal water under his ponderous belly than he backed like a torpedo boat, and the snarl of the reel told me that my labor was in vain. A dozen times at least this happened ere the line hinted that he had given up the battle and would be towed in. He was towed. The landing net was useless for one of his size, and I ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester

— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer