Definitions for torpedo boat
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1. torpedo boatnoun

   small high-speed warship designed for torpedo attacks in coastal waters

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1. torpedo boatnoun

   a small, high-speed warship designed to fire torpedoes, especially in coastal waters

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1. Torpedo boat

   A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle. The first designs were steam-powered craft dedicated to ramming enemy ships with explosive spar torpedoes. Later evolutions launched variants of self-propelled Whitehead torpedoes. These were inshore craft created to counter both the threat of battleships and other slow and heavily armed ships by using speed, agility, and powerful torpedoes, and the overwhelming expense of building a like number of capital ships to counter an enemy's. A swarm of expendable torpedo boats attacking en masse could overwhelm a larger ship's ability to fight them off using its large but cumbersome guns. A fleet of torpedo boats could pose a similar threat to an adversary's capital ships, albeit only in the coastal areas to which their small size and limited fuel load restricted them. The introduction of fast torpedo boats in the late 19th century was a serious concern to the era's naval strategists, introducing the concept of tactical asymmetric warfare. In response, navies operating large ships introduced firstly batteries of small-calibre quick-firing guns on board large warships for 'anti-torpedo' defence, before developing small but seaworthy ships, mounting light quick-firing guns, to accompany the fleet and counter torpedo boats. These small ships, which came to be called "torpedo boat destroyers" (and later simply "destroyers"), initially were largely defensive, primarily meeting the torpedo boat threat with their own guns outside of the range at which battleships would be vulnerable. In time they became larger and took on more roles, including making their own torpedo attacks on valuable enemy ships as well as defending against submarines and aircraft. Later yet they were armed with guided missiles and eventually became the predominant type of surface warship in modern era.Today, the old concept of a very small, fast, and cheap surface combatant with powerful offensive weapons is taken up by the "fast attack craft".

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1. torpedo boat

   A torpedo boat is a relatively small, fast naval vessel designed to carry out attacks on larger, more heavily armed adversary ships using torpedoes. These boats are typically agile and maneuverable, allowing them to quickly approach the enemy, launch their weapons, and then retreat before they can be targeted. They were most prominently used in the late 19th to mid 20th centuries. Today, this role is generally fulfilled by fast attack craft or submarines.

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1. Torpedo boat

   A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval vessel designed to carry torpedoes into battle. The first designs rammed enemy ships with explosive spar torpedoes, and later designs launched self-propelled Whitehead torpedoes. They were created to counter battleships and other large, slow and heavily armed ships by speed and agility. A number of inexpensive boats attacking en masse could overwhelm a larger ship's ability to fight them off using its large, slow-firing guns. This way an inexpensive fleet of torpedo boats could defend against much larger and more expensive fleets, albeit only in the coastal areas to which their small size and limited fuel load restricted them. The introduction of fast torpedo boats in the late 19th century was a serious concern to navies of the era. In response, navies operating large ships introduced smaller ships to counter the threat. These were essentially similar to the torpedo boats they faced, but mounted a light gun instead of torpedoes. As these designs became more formalized they became known as "torpedo boat destroyers", and eventually evolved into the modern destroyer. By World War II, American destroyers and destroyer escorts carried relatively small 5 inch guns effective against submarines and boats, but it was their torpedoes which gave them the capability to breach the hull armor of cruisers and battleships like the original torpedo boats. Though they had to sail through a hail of surface fire to get close enough to launch torpedoes, in the Battle Off Samar a task force composed only of small combatants backed by air power used their torpedoes to inflict enough damage to turn back a superior force of cruisers led by a battleship.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of torpedo boat in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

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   The numerical value of torpedo boat in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wiktionary
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3. ^ Wikipedia
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