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Photo #: NH 88458 Magnetic Torpedo Exploder Test The hulked submarine L-8 (SS-48) is sunk by a torpedo equipped with a magnetic influence exploder, in tests off Newport, Rhode Island, 26 May 1926. This was the only destructive test conducted during 19 years of pre-World War II magnetic influence torpedo exploder development. 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: 81KB; 740 x 600 pixels

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Image posted 8 February 2006