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ntion, and a naval torpedo-station has been established at Goat Island, Newport Harbor, for the purpose of instruction in their use and management on board vessels specially constructed for this object. See torpedo-boat. No less than 18 United States vessels were destroyed through the agency of torpedoes during the late war. One was blown up, but not destroyed. Of these were the monitors Patapsco and Tecumseh, at Charleston and Mobile Bay respectively; the iron clads Cairo and Baron de Kalb, in the Yazoo River; the iron-clads Milwaukee and Osage, in the Blakely River. In the case of stationary submarine torpedoes, the operator must know the position of each, and be provided with means for determining when a vessel approaches within its range. For this purpose instruments for measuring angles are employed, or the torpedo itself is provided with devices for indicating the proximity of a ship. Experiments are now being made at Portsmouth, England, on torpedoes of the la