8 Bells Lecture | Chuck Veit: The U.S. Navy's Secret Torpedo Program of 1862
Channel: U.S. Naval War College
Date: 2016-02-10

Chuck Veit, "Sea Miner: The U.S. Navy's Secret Torpedo Program of 1862," Eight Bells Book Lecture, Naval War College Museum, Jan. 28, 2016.

Based on research on NWC Archives, our first-ever program to develop an automobile torpedo was not at Goat Island in 1869, but in the waters off the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1862-3, and the weapon that almost came out of that project would have immediately made us the most powerful navy in the world. It was actually completed, approved and the orders to get it into production cut; that it was never deployed was a function of the security that surrounded every aspect of the work.

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