torpedo-flotilla

Updated: June 10, 2025

But Lieutenant Metcalf smiled and went quietly ahead, asking for and receiving orders to scout. He received them the more readily, as all the scouts in the squadron, including the torpedo-flotilla and two battle-ships, had come in with blinded crews. Their stories were the same they had all seen the mysterious colored lights, had gone blind, and a few had felt the itching and tingling of sunburn.

Morgan Robertson - The Wreck of the Titan: or, Futility