How to Use torpedo tube in a Sentence

torpedo tube

noun

• Two torpedo tubes have been destroyed, but the lower tube is intact and closed.
  — Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2017
• The damage is limited to the front of the craft and suggests that the ship may have hit an ocean mine with its upper deck, which destroyed two torpedo tubes.
  — Smithsonian, 20 Sep. 2017
• This rear torpedo tube could also be used to launch and recover the UUVs.
  — Christina MacKenzie, Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2020
• Other than the mangled front, the only other damage to the ship that researchers found was two destroyed torpedo tubes.
  — Aric Jenkins, Time, 19 Sep. 2017
• The location of the fire, in the port bow near the torpedo tubes, made avoiding a torpedo/missile explosion a top priority.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2018
• The torpedo tubes will launch heavyweight guided torpedoes for use against other submarines and surface ships.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Feb. 2020
• Its 11-foot bronze propeller, guns, torpedo tube and boilers were conclusive evidence that the ship was the McCulloch.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 20 June 2017
• The nature of submarine warfare means nobody ever sees the torpedo tube mechanism and the torpedo ejected from its tube.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2020
• One theory is that the motor allows the weapon capsule to swim out of submarine torpedo tubes because Iranian midget submarines are not equipped with a means to eject an unpowered capsule.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2019
• During one event, a submarine launched an unmanned sub through its torpedo tube, Navy officials told reporters during the exercise.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2021
• Each Sang-O has two 533-millimeter torpedo tubes to carry heavyweight anti-ship or anti-submarine torpedoes.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2019
• Indonesian naval experts have raised the possibility that as the Nanggala descended on Wednesday, water somehow flooded the submarine, possibly through a pipe or torpedo tube.
  — New York Times, 24 Apr. 2021
• Indonesian naval experts have raised the possibility that as the Nanggala descended Wednesday, water somehow flooded the submarine, possibly through a pipe or torpedo tube.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2021
• The press conference showed various items purportedly found from the submarine, including torpedo tube straightener, pipe cooling wrap, lubricant for the submarine periscope, sponges and submarine solar.
  — Karson Yiu, ABC News, 24 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024