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Saturday, 30 July 2016

Whitehead torpedo plant at Weymouth, England became British property according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1907-1908 no. 5

An item referred to the Marine Rundschau reporting that the torpedo plant at Weymouth, England earlier property of the firm Whitehead at Fiume, Hungary [nowadays Rijeka, Croatia] became property of a British firm. Robertson, secretary of the Parliament stated that a third of the torpedoes needed by the British Royal Navy was delivered by this plant, the other 2/3 by the naval workshops at Woolwich, England.