An item referred to the Army and Navy Journal reporting that the Japanese minister Táchira (1) accompanied by Komura of the Department of Navy to observe the tests with the Bliss-Leavitt naval torpedo (2) on the torpedo range station in the Noyacbaai. It was stated that the torpedo driven by 120 ihp turbines still had a speed of 35 miles at a distance of 4.000 yards.
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1. Kogoro Takahira (29 January 1854 Akune, Kagoshima, Japan-28 November 1926), Japans minister in the USA during the Russo-Japanese navy of 1904-1905
2. Anti-surface ship torpedo, designed by Frank NcDowell Leavitt and manufactured by the E.W. Bliss Company. Probably the item is dealing with the Bliss-Leavitt Mark 1 torpedo which had an effective firing range of 4.000 yards, a warhead weight of around 200 pounds wet guncotton and a speed of 27 knots or her successor the No. 2 designed in 1905 with a range of 3.500 yards and a speed of 26 knots.
Notes
1. Kogoro Takahira (29 January 1854 Akune, Kagoshima, Japan-28 November 1926), Japans minister in the USA during the Russo-Japanese navy of 1904-1905
2. Anti-surface ship torpedo, designed by Frank NcDowell Leavitt and manufactured by the E.W. Bliss Company. Probably the item is dealing with the Bliss-Leavitt Mark 1 torpedo which had an effective firing range of 4.000 yards, a warhead weight of around 200 pounds wet guncotton and a speed of 27 knots or her successor the No. 2 designed in 1905 with a range of 3.500 yards and a speed of 26 knots.
