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Wednesday, 3 October 2018

British Royal Navy stationing submarines at Gibraltar and Malta according to the magazine Mitteilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens dated 1904 no. 6

An item reported that that is was now possible to fire torpedoes as quick a guns. On board of 3 or 4 ships was it managed to fire a submerged torpedo tube 4 times within 1¾ minute. The British Royal navy decided as a result of this to station a submarine at Malta and another at Gibraltar where the offensive power of submarines were of value regarded the relative narrow waters.