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Although the same diameter, the Mark 14 was longer, at 20 ft 6 in (6.25 m), and therefore incompatible with older submarines' 15 ft 3 in (4.65 m) torpedo tubes. Later in the war, the Bureau of Ordnance (BuOrd) stopped producing Mark 10s for the S-boats and provided a shortened Mark 14. [5]
A Mk 5 Mod 0 US Navy Stadimeter made in 1942 by Schick Inc. of Stamford CT. The hand held stadimeter was developed by Bradley Allen Fiske (1854–1942), an officer in the United States Navy. It was designed for gunnery purposes, but its first sea tests, conducted in 1895, showed that it was equally useful for fleet sailing and for navigation.
The Bliss–Leavitt Mark 8 torpedo was the United States Navy 's first 21-inch (530 mm) by 21-foot (6.4 m) torpedo. [1] Although introduced prior to World War I, most of its combat use was by PT boats in World War II. The torpedo was originally designed in 1911 by Frank McDowell Leavitt of the E. W. Bliss Company and entered full mass ...
The Mark 10 torpedo was a torpedo put into use by the United States in 1915. It was derived from the Mark 9 aircraft torpedo converted to submarine use. [3] It was used as the primary torpedo in the R- and S-class submarines. (Seven of the R-class, R-21 through R-27, were equipped with 18-inch torpedo tubes, but were decommissioned in 1924 and ...
The Mark 15 torpedo was the standard American destroyer -launched torpedo of World War II. It was very similar in design to the Mark 14 torpedo except that it was longer, heavier, and had greater range and a larger warhead. The Mark 15 was developed by the Naval Torpedo Station Newport concurrently with the Mark 14 and was first deployed in ...
The 5-inch (127 mm)/54-caliber (Mk 45) lightweight gun is a U.S. naval artillery gun mount consisting of a 5 in (127 mm) L54 Mark 19 gun on the Mark 45 mount. [1] It was designed and built by United Defense, a company later acquired by BAE Systems Land & Armaments, which continued manufacture. The latest 62-calibre-long version consists of a ...
Mark 6 was not just a sub problem. Claims Mark 15 had speed of 45 knots. Pike, Francis (2015). Hirohito's War: The Pacific War, 1941–1945. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. ISBN 978-1-4725-9673-4. Talks about depth setting problem (as early as 1938), but also Einstein and exploder; timing is generous in Einstein's favor.
The torpedo could be set for both straight or patterned running. [2] After World War II, the Mod 0 and Mod 1 variants were developed into a common torpedo. Designed to keep the longer range from Mod 1 and larger warhead of Mod 0, this upgrade was called the Mark 16 Mod 8 and incorporated a 1,260 pound HBX (7,552 J/g) warhead in the place of the ...