An item referred to the Mittheilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens reporting that the Royal British Navy experimented with aluminium torpedo tubes on board of the destroyer HMS Boxer. It became clear that aluminium was not suitable to be used for that purpose due to corrosion by saltwater and gunpowder gasses.(1)
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1. Of the Ardent-class, laid down at the shipyard of Thornycroft, Chiswick, England in 1894 and sunk after a collision on 8 February 1918.
