An item reported that at Whitehead torpedoes were tested to be used for the Japanese battle cruiser Kongo. According to rumours were these torpedoes superior compared with the ones used until then. They had a range of 11 kilometres and a speed of 48 miles. When one torpedo was lost during trial firing was a sum of 4.000 German mark promised for the finder which was a proof of the value of this new design.(1)
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1. Of the Kongo-class consisting of the Kongo, Haruna, Hiei and Kirishima. Laid down at Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom on 17 January 1911, launched on 18 May 1912, completed on 16 August 1913, In 1924, 1927-1928 modernized and reconstructed September 1929-31 March 1931 reconstructed into a battleship, after modernizing 1 June 1935-8 January 1937 was she a classified as a fast battleship and torpedoed and sunk by the American submarine USS Sealion around 55 nautical miles north west of Keelung after entering Formosa Strait 1 day earlier on 21 November 1944. Designed by the British naval engineer George Thurston.
