A, is a bird's eye view of a vessel at anchor; B, her cable; EE, two
Torpedoes; CD, is their coupling line, about 120 feet long; it is here
represented touching the cable collapsing, and the Torpedoes driving by
the tide under the vessel. This is the manner in which the _Dorothea_ in
Walmer roads, and the brig in New-York harbour, were blown up.
[Illustration: PLATE V.
_Fig. 1._
_Fig. 2._
_Fig. 3._]