Raleigh, USS, 206
Ramus, Reverend Charles Mead, rocket float torpedo, 51
Reed, Sir Edward, armoured ships’ bottoms, 157
Reich, Captain Eli T, USS Sealion II, 223
Reitlinger, Dr Otto, 71
Renown, HMS, 159
Repulse, HMS, 65, 130, 211, 212
Restigouche, HMCS, 137
Retvizan, 174
Reuben James, USS, 202
Revenge, HMS, 158
Reynolds’ Patent, 53
Rhin, see HMS Fidelity
Rhode Island, USS, 113
Rhodes, Temporary Surgeon Lieutenant, HMS Maidstone, 228
Richmond, CSS, 19
Rio de Janeiro, 190
Rizzo, Luigi, 80, 185
Roberts, Lt-Cdr, USS Porter, 215
Roberts, USS, 98
Rocket torpedo, 50, 73, 74
Rodney, HMS,
Bismarck action, 105, 200
Oxygen-enriched air torpedoes, 56
Torpedo Control Tower, 111
Underwater tubes, 109, 110
Roma, 9
Ronis, 120
Ross, Captain George P, HMS Marlborough, 180
Rossetti, Major of Naval Engineers Raffaele, 24
Rostock, 179
Royal Gun Factory, 40
Royal Laboratories (RL)
Production of Whitehead torpedoes, 38
Torpedo tail arrangement: Introduction, 10
Royal Naval Torpedo Factory (RNTF), 54
Royal Oak, HMS, 9, 58, 189, 190, 233
Royal Sovereign, HMS, ironclad, 23
Royle, Lt-Cdr G C C, Gunnery Officer, HMS Marlborough, 180
Rozhestvensky, Zinovy Petrovitch, 171, 174
S 44, USS, 216
Samuel D Roberts, USS, 222
Sandford, Lieutenant F H, pattern runner, 54
Santee, USS, 156
Sartorius, Admiral Sir George Rose, 106
Saumarez, HMS, 224
Saunders, Captain Leslie, HMS Trinidad, 202
Scharnhorst, 96, 204
Scheliha, Colonel Victor von, 45
Schwartzkopf torpedoes, 42, 43
Schweiger, Walter, 183
Scobie, Lieutenant Douglas, Torpedo Officer, HMS Saumarez, 224
Searchlights, 150
Selfridge, Gordon, store proprietor, 184
Selfridge, USS, 219
Sep, 121
Sevastopol, 174
Seydlitz, 178
Shah, HMS, 170
Shaped charge warhead
Japanese WWII, 65
Modern, 74
Sheffield, HMS, 58, 199
Sherman, Captain, USS Lexington, 129
Shimakaze, 96, 103
Shinano, 220, 223, 224
Shinshu Maru, 215
Shinyo, 33, 34
Shirakumo, 220
Shkval, 73, 163
Sidon, HM Submarine, 70, 227
Siemens-Schuckert, Fernlenk-Boot, 31, 32
Torpedogleiter, 133
Sikh, HMS, 200
Simenot device, 119
Sims, Sims-Edison, dirigible torpedo, 51
Skate, HMS, 150
Skegs, 160
SLC Maiale, 26, 27
SLC San Bartolomeo, 26
Smith, Henry Julius, torpedo design, 51
Southampton, HMS, 160, 179
Spar torpedo
Attack Mine Type 5, 21
Boats, 78
Crouching Dragons, 20
CSS Albemarle, sinking, 19
CSS Richmond, 19
First effective attack, Lt
Glassell, CSA, 18
Foochow, Battle of, 172
Fukuryu, 20, 21
Fulton’s design, 18
H L Hunley, 18
HMS Ramillies, attack on, 18
Royal Navy model, 20
Royal Navy Spar Torpedo
Boat: Alfred West film, 20
Shaipoo, Battle of, 172
Torpedo Station Instructions, 19
Spearfish, 72
Spearfish, HM Submarine, 199
Spidola, 120
Spinne, 142
Spiral descent anti-submarine torpedoes, 67
Spunyarn, autobiography of Woods Pasha, 172
Spyten Dyvil, USS, 78
St Lo, USS, 222
St Louis, USS, 218
Steele, Lt-Cdr H P De C, HM Submarine Triton, 187
Sting Ray, 75, 135
Stord, 205
Strasbourg, 99
Streamlined nose, 57
Stromboli, USS, see USS Spuyten Dyvil
Sullivan, Timothy & Etheridge, Ernest, rocket torpedo, 51
Sultan, HMS, 86
Sunda Strait, Battle of the, 215
Supercavitation, 73
Surigao Strait, Battle of, 222
Suzuya, 98
Svobodnya Rossiya, 9
Sydney, HMAS, 116
Szent István, 80, 185, 186
Taiho, 224
Takao, 94, 96, 222
Tang, USS, 221
Taranto raid, 64, 128, 213
Tarpon, USS, 85
Tartar, HMS, 153
Tatra class, 94
Tautog, USS, 220
TDC Mark 3, 125, 126
TDS (Torpedo Defence System), 158, 209
Telautomaton, 31
Tennant, Captain, HMS Repulse, 212
Tennessee, USS, 159, 206
Tenryu, 216
Tesla, Nicola, 31
The Sullivans, USS, planned attack on, 35
Thunderer, HMS, 86
Tiesenhausen, von, 195
Tigerfish, 71
Tinosa, USS, torpedo attack on Tonan Maru 3, 59
Tirpitz, 99, 154
Togo, Admiral, 173, 206
Torbuster, 163
Torpedo Control Tower, 110, 111
Torpedo Director, Mark 27, 103
Torpex, 61
Toshio, Rear Admiral Shimazaki, Kongo, 223
Towed torpedo
French usage, 23
H L Hunley, original design, 22
Russian usage, 23, 171
‘Town’ class, 95
Trento class, 91
‘Tribal’ class, 98
Trident, HM Submarine, 200
Trinidad, HMS, 202
Triton, HM Submarine, 187