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Journal of the ROYAL NAVAL SCIENTIFIC SERVICE Decl QADR Volume 27 Number 2 March 1972 EDITORIAL HOARD CONTENTS CHAIRMAN: Mr. N. L. Parr Director of Research/ Materials 1 Mr. H. L. R. Hinkley Defence Research Information Centre Mr. R. V. Aired Directorate of Naval Research and Development Mr. D. J. Strong Staff of Scientific Adviser Director General Ships Mr. V. H. Taylor Assistant Director Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment Mr. J. W. Snowdon CM(S)N Scientific Careers Dr. B. W. Soole Admiralty Research Laboratory SPECIAL FEATURES A History of the Torpedo Parts 3-4. By O. J. Kirby. B.Sc F.R.A.S.. R.N.S.S. 7K Survival from Hypothermia in Divers. By J. Bevan, B.Sc, M.Sc, L.I.Biol.. R.N.S.S .... Materials for Extreme Environments. By J. G. Condi' B.Sc. F.I.M.. R.N.S.S. and D. J. Godfrey, B.Sc. Ph.D., R.N.S.S. .... .... Ill The Supply of Gas Mixtures at Constant Oxygen Partial Pressure to Semi Closed Circuit Breathing Apparatus. By J. B. Morrison. B.Sc. Ph.D.. A.R.C.S.T.. R.N.S.S.. and I. C. Mayo. R.N S.S .... .... .... 129 Stress Wave Analysis. Bv D. Birchon, B.Sc. F.I.M.. C.Eng.. F.l.Mech.E., M.I.Mar.E., R.N.S.S., and R. H. Warren. B.Sc. Pit.I)., A.I.M., R.N.S.S 135 Machinery Seatings for Surface Ships. Reported by L. Le-Page. B.Sc. F.lnst. Nay.. R.N.S.S 140 I06 CORRESPONDENCE Letter to the Editor D. Mussett—An Appreciation 143 RETIREMENT W. Sweasey .... L. J. Fitzgerald 144 145 NOTES ANO NEWS A.M.L., A.S.W.E., A.U.W.E. 144 RESTRICTED BOOK REVIEWS 146
7S J.R.N.S.S., Vol. 27, No. 2 A HISTORY OF THE TORPEDO PART 3 G. J. Kirby, B.Sc, F.R.A.S., R.N.S.S. Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment Abstract The problems of wartime torpedo production are described and the story of the electric torpedo is unfolded. This leads us on to the extensive German developments in homing torpedoes; these being the greatest advances since the invention of the thermal weapon in 1905. Geoff Kirby graduated from London University in 1960 and worked for six years with the UKAEA carrying out fluid flow and boiling heat transfer research as part of the power reactor programme. Transferred to AUWE, Portland in 1966 since when he has been employed on torpedo research problems as a Senior Scientific Officer. It is not proposed to deal here World War II with the tactical use of the torpedo in the last war because this demands a " history " of its own, nor will we follow in detail the development of the torpedoplane for the same reason. We will concern ourselves almost entirely with technical developments. At the outbreak of war three hitherto unsuspected difficulties sprang to notice. These were the gross shortage of weapons, the failure to design weapons in materials which would be readily available in wartime and the appalling fuze failures. On the first count the situation was sufficiently desperate for the Allies to press into service old and obsolete weapons. In the United States, for example, the Mark 10 was pressed into service from This work has been undertaken as an extra-mural project and the opinions expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily correspond to those of the Ministry of Defence (Navy).
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