Category:Torpedo (US)
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This article is a start at cataloguing the American torpedoes as I have done for the British.
Torpedoes
In 1918, the Americans enumerated their present torpedoes as follows:[1]
| Type | Mark | Len | Diam | Knots | Range yards |
Pressure psi |
Gun Cotton pounds |
Firing Weight pounds |
Gyro Mark | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Howell | I | 11ft 1.75in | obsolete | |||||||
| Whitehead | I,II,III | 3.55m | 45cm | obsolete | ||||||
| I mod 1 | 5.00m | 27.5 | 1,000 | 1350 | 220 | 1161 | I mod 1 | |||
| II | 5.00m | 27.5 | 1,500 | 1500 | 132 | 1220 | I mod 1 | |||
| III | 3.55m | 20.0 | 800 | 2250 | 132 | — | II mod 2 | |||
| Bliss-Leavitt | IV | 5.00m | 30.0 | 2,000 | 2250 | 138 | 1547 | IV mod 3 | ||
| IV mod 1 | 5.00m | 29.0 | 3,000 | 2250 | 200 | 1547 | II mod 2 | |||
| Whitehead | V | 5.20m | 27/40 | 4,000/1,000 | 2100 | 200 | 1452 | I mod 2 | ||
| V mod 1 | 29/40 | |||||||||
| V mod 2-3 | ||||||||||
| V mod 4 | 29/41 | 2150 | I mod 3 | |||||||
| Bliss-Leavitt | VI | 30 | 3,000 | 2250 | 200 | 1536 | VI | |||
| VII | 32 | 4,000 | 1540 | VII | ||||||
| I mod 2 | 5.00m | 21-in | 26 | 3,500 | 180 | 1900 | IV | |||
| II mod 1 | 1900 | V mod 1 | ||||||||
| III | 26-28 | 318 | 1928 | V mod 2 | ||||||
| VIII | 21ft | 26-28 | 300 | 10,000 | — | VIII | ||||
| IX | 5.00m | 27 | 200 | 7,000 | — | VIII | ||||
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- ↑ US Navy. The Ship and Gun Drills, 1914, p. 146.
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