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Photo #: NH 88457 Magnetic Torpedo Exploder Test A torpedo equipped with a magnetic influence exploder passes under the hulked submarine L-8 (SS-48), during tests off Newport, Rhode Island, 26 May 1926. This torpedo failed to explode. Copied from "U.S. Naval Administration in World War II, Bureau of Ordnance: Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, R.I., Volume VII", held by the Navy Department Library, 1978. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 590 pixels

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Image posted 8 February 2006