TORPEDO: THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S MOST REVOLUTIONARY NAVAL WEAPON
Written by Roger Branfill-Cook
Published by Seaforth Publishing
in 2014
ISBN: 9781848322158
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Front cover
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Robert Fulton and his Infernal Devices, 1804-1813
- 2 Fultons' Legacy
- 3 Der Kustenbrander, the inspiration for Whitehead and others
- 4 Whitehead and the Copies
- 5 The Serious Rivals, the Dead Ends, The Hopefuls and the Hopeless
- 6 The Torpedo Comes of Age
- 7 Aerial Torpedoes
- 8 The Modern Torpedo Post-Second World War
- 9 Spar Torpedo Boats, Drop Collards, Launch Troughs and Rails
- 10 Torpedo Boat Carriers
- 11 Above-water Torpedo Tubes
- 12 Underwater Tubes on Surface Ships
- 13 Submarine Torpedo Launching Gear
- 14 Torpedo Bombers and Stand-off Weapons
- 15 Coast Defence
- 16 Active Defence
- 17 Passive Defence
- 18 Modern Developments
- 19 Torpedo Attack Tactics
- 20 Early Torpedo Actions
- 21 The Great War
- 22 The Second World War - The North Sea, Mediterranean and Atlantic
- 23 The Second World War - the Pacific
- 24 Post Second World War
- Conclusion
- Bibliograpy
- Index