Robert Lee Right Gun-Carrying Torpedo

[Tzoli]

Found this document while searching in the Yuzuru Hiraga archive with the title of:
United states patent office. 1.603.098 Robert Lee Wright, of Los Angeles, California;
Willie Crockett Wright administratrix of said Robert Lee Wright, Deceased. Gun-carrying torpedo.

It shows a patent, no.219.391 dated 1918 but shown in an 1926 newspaper of a weird weapon, a torpedo which also has a single one shot gun inside of it to act as a sort of underwater Armour Piercing weapon! Instead of the torpedo warhead detonate on impact with the torpedo bulkheads the weapon would actually fire a shell to penetrate the hul underwater and create possibly two holes and damage anything in it's path.
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平賀譲デジタルアーカイブ · UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. 1,603,098 ROBERT LEE WRIGHT,OF LOS ANGELES,CALIFORNIA;WILLIE CROCKETT WRIGHT ADMINISTRATRIX OF SAID ROBERT LEE WRIGHT,DECEASED. GUN-CARRYING TORPEDO. · 東京大学学術資産等アーカイブズ共用サーバ

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[Dilandu]

It shows a patent, no.219.391 dated 1918 but shown in an 1926 newspaper of a weird weapon, a torpedo which also has a single one shot gun inside of it to act as a sort of underwater Armour Piercing weapon! Instead of the torpedo warhead detonate on impact with the torpedo bulkheads the weapon would actually fire a shell to penetrate the hul underwater and create possibly two holes and damage anything in it's path.

Well, underwater blast physics was still poorly understood by commoners at this time... The author probably saw this idea as an attempt to circumvent the anti-torpedo bulges on warships.

P.S. Or, considering how much effort he put into re-phrasing his invention in the patent, more likely that he just got the idea and wanted to patent all possible analogues, so if something remotely similar would be made practical, he could claim the rights.

 

[klem]

Fascinating for the time, especially during the years of the First World War, several inventors had patented various design torpedoes.I have some patents for torpedoes and aerial torpedoes, all of which are interesting, but most of them were faced with the problems of fairly rudimentary guidance systems for the time, but a good technical advance on the theoretical level.Robert Lee Wright also available on united states patent office-official gazette.But shouldn't this thread be in the patent section?

 

[Nik]

What goes around...

Which is the two-stage tank-busting warhead, with 'lead' that destroys 'active' armour, then 'main' that penetrates tank hull ??