Schematic drawing of the Mark XVIII torpedo from the US Navy Ordnance Pamphlet No. 946 dated Apr 1943.The afterbody of a Mark XVIII torpedo at the Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island, 14 Sep 1945. The afterbodies held the electric motors with the batteries in the mid-bodies. The gyro section has been censored.A display of three World War II torpedoes from three nations. Top, a British Mark IX; middle, a German G7e(TIII); and bottom, a US Mark XVIII.  Dutch National War and Resistance Museum Overloon, Netherlands, 1987
Schematic drawing of the Mark XVIII torpedo from the US Navy Ordnance Pamphlet No. 946 dated Apr 1943.The afterbody of a Mark XVIII torpedo at the Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island, 14 Sep 1945. The afterbodies held the electric motors with the batteries in the mid-bodies. The gyro section has been censored.A display of three World War II torpedoes from three nations. Top, a British Mark IX; middle, a German G7e(TIII); and bottom, a US Mark XVIII. Dutch National War and Resistance Museum Overloon, Netherlands, 1987


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