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These fast "destroyers" are no good for this work too long and unmanageable, and most of them too deep. What you want is something strong and simple, of light draught, and with only a spar-torpedo, if it came to that. Tugs, launches, small yachts anything would do at a pinch, for success would depend on intelligence, not on brute force or complicated mechanism.
It was a Confederate submersible boat, only fifty feet long and nine feet in diameter, carrying a fifteen-foot spar-torpedo. She had been named David and the Confederate authorities hoped to do away by means of her with the Goliaths of the Federal navy.
He had been glancing through it for only about half a minute when he turned excitedly to Terry and gasped out, "Rouse the ship, man and quickly, too; there is a launch approaching, and she carries a spar-torpedo; she is making straight for us, and evidently means to torpedo the flagship!"
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