Sentence examples for torpedo experiment from inspiring English sources

She was used as a target for a torpedo experiment on 6 April.

These changes reduced her maximum speed to 16 kn and her displacement to 16130 LT In early February 1925, Settsu towed the incomplete hulk of the battleship, which had been used for gunnery and torpedo damage experiments, from Kure to the Bungo Channel where it was scuttled on 8 February.

New Experiment Torpedoes Lightweight Dark Matter Particles.

The torpedo is fired and, although the experiment seems initially to work, the effect is short-lived and the experiment fails to have the intended result.

McCoy doctors a photon torpedo and later performs a science experiment on a tribble.

After her commissioning, München was employed as a torpedo test ship and to conduct experiments with wireless telegraphy.

Up to the mid-1870s, the German navy had only experimented with a handful of torpedo ships, all of which were equipped with the old spar torpedo.

Denied this opportunity because of his low rank, Glassell nonetheless experimented with torpedoes mounted on rowboats and in April 1863 launched an abortive attack on the Union steam frigate the Powhatan.

Some think Russian submarines in the north have been experimenting with the Shkval, a super-fast torpedo that gives Western navies the jitters.

For control experiments, mature anthers of Quercus suber and zygotic torpedo embryos of Brassica napus were excised from plants and fixed by the same procedure.

During the Napoleonic Wars the American inventor Robert Fulton experimented with a naval mine and called it a torpedo, apparently deriving its name from a fish that emits an electric discharge that incapacitates its enemies.