Seems to be pretty readily available. I found two sites so far that speak of WW1 use by the US Navy.Looking for info on the torpedo boat version of the Hickman sea sled. Not much out there.
Here is the US Navy concept being put into practice, a Caproni plane being carried by sea-sled to "intercept submarines" as it were. Unfortunately, while the concept was sound, the war ended and nothing came from it.Seems to be pretty readily available. I found two sites so far that speak of WW1 use by the US Navy.Looking for info on the torpedo boat version of the Hickman sea sled. Not much out there.
The CMB had a different hull design from Hickman's Sea Sled.Not sure if it'll be much help. It talks about the torpedo boat, however, I get the impression it was never built. The British seemed to have built something similar based on Hickman's design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Coastal_Motor_Boat_4
You're right, but the first link I attached (http://invertedvboats.freeservers.com/Hickman_Bio.html) said as much. I quote "By April 6. 1916, the second modern torpedoboat, or CMB (Coastal Motor Boat), had been launched. It encompassed many principles from Hickman's original presentation to the Admiralty, yet from then on the credit would always be attributed to the three British officers."The CMB had a different hull design from Hickman's Sea Sled.
The latter has an inverted V-shaped hull with a central tunnel to trap air under the hull to reduce resistance.
The Thornycroft CMBs had a planing hull, with a step amidships. At high speeds the craft rides on a small portion of th hull forward of the step and a small area at the stern to reduce resistance. This offers less resistance than planing hulls at high speeds, but more at low speeds.
It wasn't based off of Hickman's design, and worked in a different manner.You're right, but the first link I attached (http://invertedvboats.freeservers.com/Hickman_Bio.html) said as much. I quote "By April 6. 1916, the second modern torpedoboat, or CMB (Coastal Motor Boat), had been launched. It encompassed many principles from Hickman's original presentation to the Admiralty, yet from then on the credit would always be attributed to the three British officers."
I know what you mean, I am just pointing out that the site said as much. I agree with you, I hope you know that.It wasn't based off of Hickman's design, and worked in a different manner.
Hickman's principles seem to be putting putting torpedoes on small boats. This was hardly new, ships boats had been planned to be used for such purposes for some time prior to the First World War. Fast planing hulls like those drawn up by Thornycroft combined with internal combustion engines made that possible.