Fighting at Night with Searchlight Torpedoes 



The torpedoes carry searchlights which are lighted by means 

 of a time fuse when the enemy ships are almost reached 



One by one the torpedoes are launched. They curve and glide about, revealing the enemy's 

 position but not that of the home fleet. Below is shown the plan of the torpedo in detail 



AF L E E T 

 which could 

 illuminate 

 the battleships of 

 its enemy and be 

 itself unseen would 

 stand in a good way to whip the best 

 navy afloat. Torpedoes for carrying out 

 such tactics have already been developed 

 by Alphonse Fernandez, a Spanish inventor. 

 Not gunpowder, but a brilliant searchlight 

 is the charge of these torpedoes. 



Imagine yourself on a fleet whose search- 

 lights have just flashed upon several hostile 

 craft in the distant darkness. Out go 

 your lights, your stationary searchlights 

 also, for you do not wish to give your 

 next maneuvers away. As your ships 

 start at once to detour, the torpedoes are 

 made ready. These are constructed and 

 propelled like the regulation, high-explosive 



torpedo. The gyro- 

 scopes in them are 

 set to steer the 

 torpedoes on a cir- 

 cuitous path to- 

 wards the enemy. 

 The timing gear is also adjusted to trip 

 the electric switch and to turn on the arc- 

 lights after the torpedoes have gone a 

 sufficient distance from you. Everything 

 being now ready, the signal is given and 

 one after another the torpedoes are 

 launched ! 



They curve round and finally glide 

 straight towards the ships of the enemy 

 without revealing your own position. The 

 enemy may try to dodge the beams, but 

 before they can run out of the brilliant 

 light of the entire school of torpedoes your 

 gunners will have a chance at sinking, or 

 at least, disabling their shins. 



