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Torpedoes in the Western Rivers, Harpers Weekly, February 7, 1863. TORPEDOES IN THE WESTERN RIVERS. THROUGH the politeness of an officer in the navy we are enabled to lay before our readers, on page 85, the picture of a REBEL TORPEDO in one of the Western Rivers. All the tributaries of the Mississippi are filled with these destructive implements of warfare, and the rebels seem to be improving in their manufacture. A year ago our sailors used to laugh at them, and the harmlessness of torpedoes became proverbial. Since the destruction of the Cairo in the Yazoo River there have been fewer jests on the subject. These torpedoes are fired off in various ways—some by electricity, from a concealed station on shore—but more of them by friction, as in the sketch. A vessel passing over the torpedo we have illustrated, and scraping one of the floats with her bottom would ignite the two demijohns of powder, and knock a hole in her hull which would cause her to sink in ten minutes. The business of seeking for torpedoes and fishing them up is one of the most exciting and perilous duties of our Western sailors. |
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| Author | Harper's Weekly |
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