Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1917 — Motor Torpedo Boats. [ARTICLE]

Motor Torpedo Boats.

According to Edward F. Chandler engineer inventor, there Is no Tensor why the high-powered motor boat should not be enlplpyed to carry and discharge torpedoes. To accomplis!! this Mr. Chandler has devised a Special type of motor boat to which torpedoes may be attached to the hull one along each side of the keel. Thus supported the torpedoes neither add nor subtract from the weight of the vessel; for the torpedoes have neither positive nor negative buoyancy. The motor boat need ohly be pointed at its target to be fired accurately. Imagine, then, a fleet of these motor torpedo boats collected at intervals of about 100 miles along our coast, each station harboring from 10 to 15 boats. And then Imagine a veritable swarm of these; tiny boats sent out the enemy's battleships and troop transports. A dozen boats are sent against a single battleship; one at least will strike a telling blow. What -chance has a big ship against a swarm of these lowlying motor torpedo boats? —Popular Science Monthly.