torpedo

• That day the ship was struck by a torpedo from a German submarine and sank in the Atlantic. —  Firstcoastnews.com Local News
• Nellie saw Lucy fly into the room like a torpedo, her wings folded close to her body and disappearing in a blur of speed. —  The Mystery of the Haunted Vampire
• This time the vanquished vessel was the French submarine Mariotte_, which, on July 26, 1915, was sunk by a torpedo from a German submarine in the waters right near the entrance to the Dardanelles. —  The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes
• The Russo-Turkish war of 1878-79, taught that a torpedo was a more important element in naval warfare than had been imagined. —  How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900
• But during the American Civil War the torpedo was again brought to the front, and the Southerners, or "Confederates," used vast numbers of them, to the great damage of the Northerners, or "Federals At first these torpedoes proved so harmless--so few exploding out of the hundreds laid--that the Federal officers paid little attention to them. —  How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900

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