• A tube fixed below or near the water line through which atorpedo is fired, usually by a small charge of gunpowder. On torpedovessels the tubes are on deck and usually in broadside, on largervessels usually submerged in broadside and fitted with a movableshield which is pushed out from the vessel's side to protect thetorpedo until clear, but formerly sometimes in the bow. In submarinetorpedo boats they are in the bow.


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