Instructions for the Management of Harvey's Sea Torpedo
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- INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF HARVEY’S SEA TORPEDO.
- Arrangements required for Launching and Towing.
- Preparations for Launching and Towing.
- Launching the Torpedo.
- Recovering the Torpedo.
- Torpedo arranged to Explode by Electricity.
- Description of Capt. C. A. McEvoy’s Circuit-closing Arrangement for Harvey’s Sea Torpedo.
- TACTICS.
- CASE 1. ATTACKING A VESSEL MOORED HEAD AND STERN.
- CASE 2. ATTACKING A VESSEL AT ANCHOR BY CROSSING THE BOW.
- CASE 3. ATTACKING A VESSEL AT ANCHOR BY PASSING ON EITHER SIDE DETERMINED UPON, COMING UP FROM THE STERN.
- CASE 4. ATTACKING A VESSEL AT ANCHOR BY COMING UP RIGHT ASTERN AND THEN PASSING ON EITHER SIDE.
- CASE 5. PASSING DOWN BETWEEN TWO LINES OF VESSELS AT ANCHOR, AND DESTROYING THEM ON EITHER SIDE.
- CASE 6. ATTACKING A VESSEL IN MOTION BY COMING DOWN FROM RIGHT AHEAD.
- CASE 7. ATTACKING A VESSEL IN MOTION, COMING UP TO HER FROM RIGHT ASTERN.
- CASE 8. IF CHASED BY A HOSTILE VESSEL, AND IT IS DEEMED UNADVISABLE TO FACE HER AND PROCEED AS IN CASE 6.
- CASE 9. ATTACKING A VESSEL IN MOTION BY CROSSING HER BOW.
- The subjoined is a Remark upon the Description of Vessel adapted to the Service of the Sea Torpedo.
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