Good Evening All,
For the few members that may have an interest in early (pre-1900) torpedoes, I have attached for your amusement and light reading a report that I produced for the Explosion Museum in Gosport last year...................
In a nutshell, I was fortunate enough to be "invited" into the Museum's storage facilities to be shown an early vintage torpedo - the *key* issue the Museum had after I identified it as a Whitehead A22 type torpedo was: is it actually a Whitehead Fiume manufactured one, or the German Schwartzkopf copy of the A22????......
(The A22 was the 2nd mass-produced torpedo by Whitehead ~1877 and the one which Louis Schwartzkopf reportedly "copied"!)
At that time I did not even know!
(This has been a long outstanding query which I had on the "to investigate" list).
Several documented references indicated that there were a couple of minor differences, one being that the Schwartzkopf copy was reportedly overall slightly longer.
I have now identified a couple of *key* differences in the tail construction.
Please Enjoy!
Cheers
Drew
BTW - the last 2 x photos highlights what was "covered" up in front of the A22.
*All Photos where indicated are courtesy of the Explosion Museum, Gosport with permission.
In addition a number of photos are courtesy of the Naval Museum in Madrid (stolen from the internet)
For the few members that may have an interest in early (pre-1900) torpedoes, I have attached for your amusement and light reading a report that I produced for the Explosion Museum in Gosport last year...................
In a nutshell, I was fortunate enough to be "invited" into the Museum's storage facilities to be shown an early vintage torpedo - the *key* issue the Museum had after I identified it as a Whitehead A22 type torpedo was: is it actually a Whitehead Fiume manufactured one, or the German Schwartzkopf copy of the A22????......
(The A22 was the 2nd mass-produced torpedo by Whitehead ~1877 and the one which Louis Schwartzkopf reportedly "copied"!)
At that time I did not even know!
(This has been a long outstanding query which I had on the "to investigate" list).
Several documented references indicated that there were a couple of minor differences, one being that the Schwartzkopf copy was reportedly overall slightly longer.
I have now identified a couple of *key* differences in the tail construction.
Please Enjoy!
Cheers
Drew
BTW - the last 2 x photos highlights what was "covered" up in front of the A22.
*All Photos where indicated are courtesy of the Explosion Museum, Gosport with permission.
In addition a number of photos are courtesy of the Naval Museum in Madrid (stolen from the internet)
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