X is for X-Craft
X is for X-Craft You can imagine how delighted I was to find something beginning with X for the Blogging from A-Z challenge. Thank goodness for my father's Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. It has truly saved my bacon. "Hazards of the Royal Navy" Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954) 29 May 1952: 12. Web. 25 Apr 2016 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article93924842>. X-craft were miniature submarines of 40 feet (12m) in length and operated by a crew of four. As it was impossible within this overall length to handle a normal torpedo or to mount a tube through which to fire it, they carried instea tow large detachable side charges each containing two tons of explosive fired by a time fuse. (p. 946 of the Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea ) You can read another interesting story about X-craft here. This has been my contribution to the Blogging from A-Z challenge.