2005

TQ7076 : Torpedo Launch

taken 19 years ago, 3 km from Church Street, Kent, England

Torpedo Launch
Torpedo Launch
This narrow trackway is the launch track for the world's first guided anti-shipping torpedo, which protected the Thames around 1886 to the late 1890s. Known as the Brennan torpedo, an example still exists in Chatham of this wire guided missile. It was claimed to be accurate enough to "hit a floating fruit bowl at 2000 yards". Apparently never used in anger, this launch only succeeded in sinking a friendly ship.

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Category: Fortifications
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TQ7076, 184 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Hywel Williams   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 27 August, 2005   (more nearby)
Submitted
Saturday, 27 August, 2005
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 705 767 [100m precision]
WGS84: 51:27.8154N 0:27.1842E
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