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human torpedo
human torpedo n. (in the Second World War (1939-45)) a submersible craft piloted by divers and used to attach mines to the hulls of enemy ships.
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1941 Times 25 Sept. 3/3 It was stated that the vessels carrying out this daring feat were ‘human torpedoes’ popularly known as ‘grasshoppers’.
1944 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 12 Apr.–26 Sept. 21/2 A new and devastating weapon called the ‘human torpedo’. It can be likened to a miniature submarine.
1953 Jane's Fighting Ships 1953–54 151 Damaged in Northern waters in 1944 and repaired and reconstructed as ‘Kaitan’ (Human Torpedo) carrier.
1994 Guardian 20 July i. 5/8 Robert Hobson, whose father was a charioteer, as the crewmen of the Royal Navy's human torpedoes were called.
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