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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