14-in Fiume Mark II Torpedo

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The 14-in Fiume Mark II Torpedo was an early torpedo manufactured by the Whitehead & Company.

At the start of 1881, Portsmouth had 24 in store. They ended the year with 9.[1]

By the end of 1884, the Royal Navy had purchased 25 of them as it sought to compare Whitehead-manufactured specimens with their domestically licensed weapons built at the Royal Laboratory.[2]

These torpedoes, along with 14-in torpedoes R.L. Marks I-III and the Fiume Mark I were deemed obsolete in 1892.[3]

An extensive report on torpedoes being adjusted at the test ranges shows they are not in use in 1896.[4]

Manufacture and Use

1918

All 203 remaining torpedoes were ordered broken up in 1918.[5]

Footnotes

  1. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1881. p. 34.
  2. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1884. p. 47.
  3. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1892. p. viii.
  4. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1896. pp. 42-44.
  5. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1918. p. 10. (G. 8472/18).

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