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1. " Zoomed in on the open bay with their helmets they could see that the bulge in the smooth hull offset to the starboard side was a housing for a ship-killer of some kind, probably a warspite torpedo
2. “But will it be sufficient to fool the torpedo proximity fuses into thinking they’ve struck a
3. The Secretary of War suggests that if the navy will not undertake to break through, take a transport, cover the pilot-house in most exposed points with baled hay, attach an anchor to a towline, and if possible grapple the torpedo cables, and call for volunteers from the army to run into the harbour, thus making a way for the navy
4. The enemy has felt the sting of our raids, conducted by airships, bombers, torpedo planes and even ‘Ship’s Camels,’ which sometimes operated at night
5. torpedo tuber of a frozen leave,
6. Shaped like a torpedo, he was missing one arm and one leg
7. The gunship turns in the opposite direction and the computer starts firing at the alien torpedo with its mini gun bullets and 25mm cannon rounds
8. The bullets and cannon hit the alien torpedo directly
9. The torpedo breaks up into a dozen little pieces, but still keeps at the same speed at the target
10. Jaden fires a very small pink torpedo, the size of a hotdog towards the female in the car
11. He concentrates on the dog’s landmines and sends a small torpedo towards it, vaporizing it
12. A small orange projectile torpedo is shot from under the purple molecule
13. They each fire their cannons and four torpedo weapons from the top and bottom of their molecules
14. The super black torpedo is long range with spinning black sphere crystals inside it
15. Although the cast of characters changed over time, here’s a sample of who he would see: “First, his trusted operations vice president and torpedo, me
16. He relied on me as the torpedo to do the deed
17. Motor torpedo boat: high speed boat armed with torpedoes, guns and missiles
18. In a frenzy now, my trembling fingers found the torpedo, and again fitted it on the track
19. More quickly this time, I attached the second torpedo and, as I ran to the third position, I could hear the thunderous roar of the locomotive charging up to me
20. Once again, I had to attach a torpedo holding it to the rail with my head, which could be squashed like a pumpkin by the on-rushing juggernaut
21. By the time I would hear the first torpedo explode, just a mere hundred feet up the track, it would be too late to pull back! The locomotive would be upon me!
22. A one-man submarine was nothing of the sort; on the contrary, it was a live torpedo with a seat on top and a plastic bubble over the driver
23. He had also survived the war intact, in his case from torpedo boats
24. He was a homing torpedo, continually hunting, continually poised to kill
25. Singly controlled robot spacecraft, built in a torpedo shape with metal handles welded onto the casing for the robots to hold onto, fill the cargo hold
26. Looking at the torpedo shaped craft gives Grailem an idea; if he was to borrow one of these craft he would not have to rely on the shuttlecrafts to transport him from starship to starship
27. Stealing one of the torpedo shaped craft was simplicity itself; once unloaded into the cargo hold of the starship he had spent the night in, the shuttlecraft returns to the planet for more supplies
28. One that he examines, built in a torpedo shape, is ten kilometres long and three kilometres at its widest point
29. While the nervous Captain on day shift will try to pal up with their creeps in the neighborhood, the second shift ensign will put an atomic torpedo up their exhaust port at the smallest provocation
30. “Firing tubes one through four, sir!” Replied the torpedo chief as the noise of compressed air and a shudder marked the launch of the first of the four forward torpedoes
31. The fourth torpedo hit the already gravely damaged light cruiser, breaking it in two, while the destroyer slowly sank by the bow
32. As destroyers picked up speed and dashed towards the possible location of the attacking American submarine, intent on dropping depth charges, a third torpedo hit the unlucky cruiser, breaking it in two
33. Eighteen WILDCAT fighters, twelve SBD dive bombers and six TBF torpedo bombers did a lot to revitalize General Geiger’s anemic male squadrons
34. ‘’Uh, General, how could this EC-142 patrol plane detect those planes from such a distance?’’ Asked Lieutenant Commander Harold Larsen, the boss of the Navy VT-8 torpedo plane squadron
35. What I intend to do is to use the planes of the 99th CAG, which have superior combat range, for the first attack waves, along with the TBF torpedo bombers of the VT-8
36. Following in third wave, and with the enemy ships hopefully damaged and slowed down by then, will be the six TBFs of Commander Larsen, which will execute torpedo attack runs
37. The six reconnaissance P-38s of Captain Avery, which will be armed with two bombs each for this occasion, will precede closely the TBFs to draw enemy fire away from our torpedo planes
38. Since the planes of the 99th CAG are already fueled up and armed, they will depart right after this meeting is over, along with Commander Larsen’s torpedo planes
39. Lieutenant Commander Harold Larsen felt both a mix of excitement and fear as he pushed his Grumman TBF-1 AVENGER torpedo bomber into a shallow dive, following the six RP-38Ns of Captain Avery
40. As Larsen and his pilots leveled their torpedo bombers at an altitude of less than fifty meters, the squadron commander saw with a pinch of the heart a long flame appear in the sky, denoting a plane that had been hit
41. Still shaken by that vision, Larsen then concentrated on lining up his plane on a torpedo run against the starboard side of the NAGATO
42. Up to now, their plan seems to be succeeding in distracting the Japanese gunners away from his torpedo bombers and from the RP-38Ns of Captain Avery
43. Avery then gave a short radio message as she accelerated with her planes away from Larsen’s torpedo bombers
44. The RP-38Ns of Captain Avery had thus done their job splendidly up to now, opening the way for his own torpedo bombers
45. That same submarine also managed to torpedo and damage the new battleship SOUTH DAKOTA and one destroyer, the latter sinking during its return trip to Hawaii for repairs
46. The sub then launched a nonlethal torpedo into Gemini's screw that rendered her immobile
47. 50 caliber heavy machineguns and six 21-inch torpedo tubes
48. � Its machinery space ripped wide open by the torpedo salvo, the GNEISENAU quickly started listing to starboard, then capsized in less than two minutes
49. � Walking to the forward torpedo room, Prien bent and entered it through the large, round hatch
50. � She was sitting cross-legged near the torpedo tubes, her back straight and eyes closed
1. June 1943 the cutter was torpedoed and sank in less than five minutes (Kaplan and Hunt, p
2. But they reformed into their group and torpedoed down upon them
3. REPULSE, torpedoed by a German submarine
4. Ken screamed with joy when he understood that the submarine that had left the harbor had just torpedoed the cruiser
5. The euphoria of the naval defeat of the Japanese, completed by the sinking of the KONGO and CHOKAI the next morning, was however quickly tempered one day later by the sinking of the carrier USS WASP, torpedoed by a Japanese submarine
6. But was torpedoed en route by a British submarine and had to turn back, never venturing to sea operationally again
7. Three British destroyers intercepted, torpedoed and sunk two Italian cruisers off Cape Bon
8. At the same time, an Italian battleship was torpedoed by a British submarine and put out of action for several months
9. The same ally that knowingly strafed and torpedoed one of our ships, the U
10. They strangled supply routes and torpedoed without notice sending untold tons of steel, sailors, and cargo to the bottom
11. It has been torpedoed and is under attack by Chinese Mig-15 fighters and gunboats about forty miles to the west of Hainan Island
12. The IRWIN would then have sent its message before being torpedoed, not after
13. ‘’Damn! The only message the IRWIN sent simply said that it was under attack and had received two torpedoes, but did not say exactly when it was torpedoed
14. ‘’Damn! The IRWIN was torpedoed BEFORE the arrival of the Mig-15s and of the patrol boats
15. Once, they announced that their military had shot Abraham Lincoln and torpedoed Washington, D
16. Not long afterward, the SS City of Benares was torpedoed in a convoy bound for Canada
17. But he didn’t! He torpedoed himself up onto the roof, skinny and cat-quick
18. He had been torpedoed five times, and was reputed to be the sole survivor on the last two occasions
19. The battleship in which I was serving was picking up survivors from a torpedoed merchantman in the North Atlantic
20. After the Britannia was torpedoed in November 1918, and the order "Abandon Ship" had been given, the crew had to make their way as best they could to a destroyer which had pulled up alongside
21. liner Arabia, returning from the East with a full complement of passengers, was torpedoed
22. One day this station signalled that a merchant ship had been torpedoed and that German submarines were near the coast
23. Wellington, was torpedoed on August 14, 1917, and we were a despondent crew in the only two boats
1. some cannon, not many, but beyond our torpedoes, junks have sensor arrays originally made for prospecting
2. The pair of warspite torpedoes flared out of Greenstone’s tubes and ripped across the black on fiery columns
3. She was following her torpedoes, wearing only a short and thin, yellow pleat-skirt in spite of how early this was in the week
4. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! So said Admiral Farragut in the battle of Lake Erie during the ware of 1812
5. What is to be said, truthfully, about this grass-roots movement of concerned Americans? They had better be taken seriously, in other words, „Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead
6. matter torpedoes that had been dispatched to destroy it
7. “I’m sure,” he continued, “you’ve heard of those occasions when torpedoes launched at a
8. to it: They would come out of the transit point behind a barrage of antimatter torpedoes, which
9. watched, somewhat fascinated, as a salvo of antimatter torpedoes shot forth from the bow, tiny
10. Imbrahim counted the seconds, waiting for the torpedoes to self-destruct
11. Only moments after the Confederation had exited hyperspace, the half-dozen torpedoes
12. ships had launched several salvoes of torpedoes at the Confederation before calling for the shift
13. antimatter torpedoes struck the rock and carved great gouges out of it
14. More torpedoes fell in a hail against the rock, the resulting radiation blinding the
15. “They’re antimatter torpedoes, Mister Imbrahim,” she said,
16. “It appears the Unity torpedoes have been caught in a distortion within our Pearson FTL
17. “But the torpedoes were almost
18. engines in the torpedoes will remain silent
19. fraction of the distance between the Confederation and the Unity torpedoes
20. sweep past the ship and form a barrier between us and the incoming torpedoes
21. “The radiation from the annihilation of so many torpedoes at once
22. trigger the torpedoes before they reach us?”
23. He held his breath as the six torpedoes leapt the gap between the Confederation and the
24. “Can’t use torpedoes,” I acknowledged
25. Two pink torpedoes come from each side purple molecule
26. The torpedoes begin spinning around as they increase speed
27. The torpedoes change direction and head towards the ground
28. “I was trying to tell you before you cut me off that the alien torpedoes destroyed every jet fighter’s missiles and guns including yours
29. ‘Yellow torpedoes disrupt the particles that form energy shields and can be combined with other weapons
30. Pink torpedoes destroy or vaporize unshielded offensive weapons; mostly used for Earth-type weapons or primitive weapons systems
31. Artificial intelligence purple torpedoes have a powerful explosion and come in different sizes
32. AI TNT red torpedoes are long-range torpedoes with a powerful explosion
33. Each team was composed of four cells; a four-man penetration cell with Bangalore torpedoes, two five-man assault cells with satchel charges, and a two-man fire support team with B-40 grenade launchers and AK-47 rifles
34. The cutter was capable of 29 knots and armed with sonar, antisubmarine torpedoes, 40 millimeter mounts and a 5-inch
35. ) by German U- boat torpedoes while escorting an Allied convoy with the loss of the entire crew
36. Motor torpedo boat: high speed boat armed with torpedoes, guns and missiles
37. Ordnance: collective term for guns, missiles, torpedoes and bombs
38. Torpedoes!” Wild-eyed with fear, he threw three torpedoes, mounds covered with red paper and filled with gunpowder, on the table
39. Besides swinging a red lantern, a train could be signaled to stop by attaching three torpedoes to the rail spaced fifty feet apart
40. The engineer would hear the three torpedoes sounding off, and would set the brakes and stop as soon as possible
41. Jones set warning torpedoes on the track that signaled the engineer of the oncoming freight to stop just in time
42. I just can’t believe you acted so quickly to set those torpedoes
43. "They used pulsar torpedoes
44. No organization themselves, but they rent out as torpedoes
45. Half of her face was a chocolate smudge but she damned the torpedoes and went straight ahead
46. Just consider the fact that she warned our navy months before her death about grave defects in our torpedoes
47. At the time, a number of American admirals treated that information as pure bunk, claiming that nothing was wrong with our torpedoes
48. Well, tests were done on our torpedoes, just in case she could be right
49. That episode is by the way the reason why all our torpedoes were exchanged for new models two months ago
50. “Firing tubes one through four, sir!” Replied the torpedo chief as the noise of compressed air and a shudder marked the launch of the first of the four forward torpedoes
1. Orca whales kill sharks by torpedoing up into the
2. We were discussing here about the possible retaliatory measures against the Soviets after their torpedoing of the IRWIN
3. Your mom could offer to drive you, torpedoing your plans: far harder to escape from the hall monitors at school than from this defenseless little house