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NH 88458 Magnetic Torpedo Exploder Test

Photo #: NH 88458 Magnetic Torpedo Exploder Test
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Title: Magnetic Torpedo Exploder Test
Description: The hulked submarine L-8 (SS-48) is sunk by a torpedo equipped with a magnetic influence exploder, in tests off Newport, Rhode Island, 26 May 1926. This was the only destructive test conducted during 19 years of pre-World War II magnetic influence torpedo exploder development. Copied from U.S. Naval Administration in World War II, Bureau of Ordnance: Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, R.I., Volume VII, held by the Navy Department Library, 1978. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 88458
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