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Monday 13 May 2013

British submarines not using German Schwarzkof torpedoes according to the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 2 April 1916

An item dated Paris 1 April reported that the British Admiralty denied to have in stock many bronze made Schwarzkopf torpedoes neither the use of British submarines of this kind of torpedoes despite what a German telegram claimed. The only Schwarzkopf torpedoes in British property consisted of technical models in museums and in more as twenty years were none such torpedoes used by British submarines.