Torpedo boat
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- Note
- "A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle. The first designs were steam-powered craft dedicated to ramming enemy ships with explosive spar torpedoes. Later evolutions launched variants of self-propelled Whitehead torpedoes.
These were inshore craft created to counter both the threat of battleships and other slow and heavily armed ships by using speed, agility, and powerful torpedoes, and the overwhelming expense of building a like number of capital ships to counter an enemy´s. A swarm of expendable torpedo boats attacking en masse could overwhelm a larger ship´s ability to fight them off using its large but cumbersome guns. A fleet of torpedo boats could pose a similar threat to an adversary´s capital ships, albeit only in the coastal areas to which their small size and limited fuel load restricted them." - (en.wikipedia.org 15.01.2022)
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