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SEA OF SHADOWS 109 on the armed Turkish steamer Intibah. Both shots were direct hits, and the resulting explosions devastated the Turkish ship. The wreckage of the Intibah slipped beneath the waves in less than two minutes. In many ways, the attack was less impressive than Whitehead might have hoped for. The Intibah—although armed—was not an ironclad, so the torpedo’s effectiveness still had not been demonstrated against a fully armored warship. (In fact, the Tchesma and Sinope had conducted earlier attacks on the Turkish ironclad Mahmoudieh, but both of their torpedoes had missed the target.) Still, details notwithstanding, history had been made: automotive torpedoes had struck and destroyed an armed vessel under conditions of actual combat. The torpedo was no longer a curiosity, or even a theoretical weapon. It was an engine of war. The race to acquire and perfect torpedo technology rose to a level approaching frenzy. The torpedo, in various designs, saw use in several sea battles over the next few decades, with wildly varying degrees of success. The mixed results were the product of two factors: one positive and one negative. On the positive side, the destructive energy that a torpedo could deliver was astounding; it was not at all unusual for a single torpedo hit to cripple or sink a fully armored warship. On the negative side, the lack of a selfcorrecting steering mechanism made it difficult to actually hit a target with any real degree of reliability. In the early 1890s, Whitehead became convinced that the torpedo steering problem could be solved by installing a gyroscope. (Invented in 1852 by French physicist Jean Bernard Leon Foucault, the gyroscope was known to have interesting properties but was generally thought to have no practical application.) Whitehead embarked on a series of experiments using a Russian-made gyro called a Petrovich. Despite its promise, the Russian gyro was too crudely made to suit Whitehead’s purpose. In 1895, Whitehead turned his attention to a precision-built gyroscope designed by an Austrian naval engineer named Ludwig Obry. Unlike the Russian model, Obry’s gyroscope could achieve and maintain a high enough rotation speed (about 2,400 rpm) to give a torpedo both duration and accuracy. Whitehead attached the gyro to a two-way air valve, which directed measured quantities of compressed air to a steering engine whenever a torpedo began to deviate from its directed path through the water. The steering engine was connected in turn to the torpedo’s vertical fins, which Whitehead re-engineered into turnable rudders. It was an ingenious solution to a problem that had plagued the automotive torpedo ever since its birth in 1866. Gyroscopic steering increased the accuracy of the
110 JEFF EDWARDS torpedo’s course to a mere half degree over a distance of seven thousand yards, or three and a half nautical miles. Suddenly, the torpedo had striking range, accuracy, and the incredible destructive potential for which it had become famous. With the major engineering problems finally solved, it was nearly inevitable that the torpedo would begin to exert a significant influence on world events.
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“A timeless warrior epic. Jeff Ed
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SEA OF SHADOWS Copyright © 2010 by
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to tha
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SEA OF SHADOWS 7 duty was to steer
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SEA OF SHADOWS 17 As if in response
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CHAPTER 3 DEUTSCHE MARINE NAVAL ARS
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SEA OF SHADOWS 21 It was time to in
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SEA OF SHADOWS 31 “Perhaps things
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SEA OF SHADOWS 33 “The Japanese p
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SEA OF SHADOWS 35 “And in this ca
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SEA OF SHADOWS 47 The vice presiden
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SEA OF SHADOWS 49 “No, sir. He’
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CHAPTER 7 TORPEDO: THE HISTORY AND
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CHAPTER 8 MARINE BARRACKS AT EIGHTH
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SEA OF SHADOWS 57 “CDC and USAMRI
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SEA OF SHADOWS 167 Chief McPherson
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CHAPTER 26 U.S. NAVY CENTRAL COMMAN
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SEA OF SHADOWS 177 SAU continue on
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Witness Larry S. Burke: WTN-16/CA-2
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SEA OF SHADOWS 187 The pilot keyed
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SEA OF SHADOWS 193 Captain Whiley g
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SEA OF SHADOWS 195 “Backup?”
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SEA OF SHADOWS 201 About twenty min
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SEA OF SHADOWS 209 The chief relaxe
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SEA OF SHADOWS 211 short for Naval
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SEA OF SHADOWS 213 There was nothin
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CHAPTER 38 USS TOWERS (DDG-103) NOR
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CHAPTER 39 USS INGRAHAM (FFG-61) NO
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SEA OF SHADOWS 273 The XO nodded.
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SEA OF SHADOWS 275 Lieutenant (jg)
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SEA OF SHADOWS 283 “You sink that
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SEA OF SHADOWS 317 “TAO—Weapons
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SEA OF SHADOWS 329 “Kapitan! All
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SEA OF SHADOWS 333 The gunfire incr
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SEA OF SHADOWS 335 Over the 29-MC,
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OVAL OFFICE WASHINGTON, DC MONDAY;
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CHAPTER 53 USS TOWERS (DDG-103) CON
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SEA OF SHADOWS 343 Vice Admiral Dou
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