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Lightning

British torpedo boat

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design by Thornycroft

In Sir John Isaac Thornycroft
…of the Royal Navy, HMS Lightning, which he completed in 1877. At the same time, he experimented with hull form and propeller design and patented a hull that could skim, rather than cut through, the water. He also designed water-tube boilers for torpedo boats as well as one of the…
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