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At random: The self-propelled torpedo, which gets its name from the eel TORPEDO ELECTRICUS, was invented by Robert Whitehead in 1868, a number of years before a practical submarine was developed.

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fortyrod

Posted 2018-06-25 4:55 AM (#89549)

Great Sage of the Sea

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Subject: 6-25/26 history

Pacific 06/25/62: The USS Tiru (SS-416) suffers a fire which forces the vessel to make an emergency surfacing 15 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, with 18 men suffering from smoke inhalation. A malfunction of a practice torpedo in the torpedo room caused the fire.

6-26-1962 Naval Facilites Engineering Command Cape Hatteras makes first Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) detection of a Soviet diesel submarine.

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