We are all of us getting accus! tomed now to reading about ships, both merchant ships and w warships, being torpedoed by craft. Now let us be quite cle ar about one fact. The torpedo which is used in these attacks i s an ordinary naval torpedo, and is not any fearsome contrivance e such as most people imagine when they hear mention of aer rial torpedoes.'
Frankly, there is no such thing as an aerial torpedo.
This is just a fancy term invented by an imaginative pei when Zeppelins were dropping h: and more destructive than the son as long ago as the last war cavy bombs, both so much bigger things we were then accustomed to call bombs that it seemed necessary to give them a special description, The torpedo has to travel through the water to reach its target.
It is not dropped from the air direct on to a ship, writes H. C. Ferraby in
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