pipe-plugging

Updated: May 13, 2025

There were, however, discovered, as a result of this rigid investigation of every mechanical detail, many artful cases of pipe-plugging, of steel nuts and bolts concealed in delicate mechanical parts, of ground glass in oil-pipes and bearings, of indicators that were so adjusted as to give inaccurate readings, of fire-extinguishers filled with gasoline in fact, the manifold deceits which the Germans practised would make a chapter of themselves.

Lawrence Perry - Our Navy in the War