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In the under side of this type of torpedo is an opening. When the torpedo is dropped into the sea the water, pouring into this opening, sets the propelling mechanism in motion and the projectile goes tearing away on its errand of destruction precisely as though fired from the torpedo-tube of a submarine.
Shortly after one o'clock I perceived in the periscope a cloud of smoke to the south. Half an hour later a large steamer raised her hull, making for the mouth of the Thames. I ordered Vornal to stand by the starboard torpedo-tube, having the other also loaded in case of a miss. Then I advanced slowly, for though the steamer was going very swiftly we could easily cut her off.
A white whiskered man in a frock-coat as I live by bread, a frock-coat! sea-boots, and a comforter crawled over the torpedo-tube into Moorshed's grip and vanished forward. You're a tax-payer, Sir. Do you think that excessive?" "Lead there! Lead!" rang out from forward. "Didn't I say 'e wouldn't understand compass deviations? Watch him close. It'll be worth it!"
At the last I rolled limply on the floor, and woke to real life with a bruised nose and a great call to go on deck at once. "It's all right," said a voice in my booming ears. "Morgan and Laughton are worse than you!" I was gripping a rail. Mr. Pyecroft pointed with his foot to two bundles beside a torpedo-tube, which at Weymouth had been a signaller and a most able seaman.
When full, we still have three hundred pounds reserve buoyancy, and would have to go ahead and steer down. But we won't go ahead. Come forward, and I'll show you the torpedo-tube." Foster remained, moodily staring through the deadlight, while the other two went forward.
But he returned always to the Berenice moving away up the Asia passage, so cautiously that between whiles she seemed to be drifting; but always moving, with the smoke blown level from her buff-coloured funnels, with clean white sides and clean white ensign, and here and there a sparkle of sunlight on rail or gun-breech or torpedo-tube.
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