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ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. (WALA) - The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office Dive Team safely removed an object they described as a “torpedo” from the water at a boat ramp Monday morning after it was ...
When you think of Naval vessels, you're likely to conjure up gargantuan aircraft carriers and submarines. Chances are you would never think of a PT boat, and that's if you even know what one is. The ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Achieving a 100-year milestone is a remarkable accomplishment that places an individual in an elite group of “centenarians.” The milestone presents an opportunity to honor a ...
Why PT boat crews stripped guns from crashed P-39 Airacobras during WW2 — and destroyed over 800 Japanese vessels. This World War 2 story reveals how a desperate field modification became ...
For decades, battleships were seen as unstoppable symbols of naval power, protected by thick armor and massive guns. Yet their greatest vulnerability came from small, fast torpedo boats that could ...
A right whale and its calf swim along the Atlantic coast. Right whales move south to the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida in winter to give birth to calves. The whales are among the rarest in the world ...
At a time when federal protections are lacking for some of the rarest whales on the planet, researchers in South Carolina and Georgia are trying to save the giant mammals through a combination of ...
Last week the eternal secret weapon reappeared in the news. At La Linea, next to Gibraltar, “a strange craft looking like the hybrid offspring of a torpedo and a launch” — ten feet long, equipped with ...
The British ocean liner was torpedoed by the Germans during World War I, killing over one thousand people and changing the tide of war. But controversy still surrounds the disaster as some questions ...
IT was but natural that in his presidential address to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on October 22, Sir J. E. Thornycroft should deal with the development of torpedo craft. He was a child ...