Wall and Ball "wake-seeking torpedo"

[Temistocle]

Hi, I just found on TROVE some pictures of the trials of the "Wall" and "Ball" "wake-seeking torpedo", that seems a kind of wake homing torpedo:

"Wall" and "Ball" wake-seeking torpedo

There is just a very small description here:

RAN Torpedo Factory

Any other info?

 

[Dilandu]

Quite interesting find!

I managed to found some references here, searching for "Wall torpedo":

Session expired | RecordSearch | National Archives of Australia

recordsearch.naa.gov.au

Apparently there are document "V Wall - Robot bomb and aerial torpedo", open to public but not digitized. Maybe someone from Australia could access it.

 

[Temistocle]

Hi Dilandu, your link is expired, or dead. Below a screensoht of the list of the documents I found, I think they are the same you found too (the other 21 documents are the pictures already listed). I hoped for some expert that already know about these torpedoes, going to an archive during the Covid pandemia I think it is diffficult, if not impossible (in Italy they are more or less closed, or with a very long waiting list).

 

[Dilandu]

Hi Dilandu, your link is expired, or dead. Below a screensoht of the list of the documents I found, I think they are the same you found too (the other 21 documents are the pictures already listed). I hoped for some expert that already know about these torpedoes, going to an archive during the Covid pandemia I think it is diffficult, if not impossible (in Italy they are more or less closed, or with a very long waiting list).

Yes, it seems to be that (sorry for the dead link, I was typing from my phone, and must be made some mistake). I'm trying to identify V. Wall, the inventor, but without much sucess.

 

[Temistocle]

Searching only for "wake" and "torpedo" two more files popped out:



The real inventors?

 

[Dilandu]

The real inventors?

Quite probably so.