The Ship Killers: The Definitive Illustrated History of the Torpedo Boat

Name: The Ship Killers: The Definitive Illustrated History of the Torpedo Boat
ISBN: 9781934840429

Nimble Books · 801 pages · ISBN 9781934840429

The complete 11-volume illustrated history of the torpedo boat, from spar torpedoes to WWII motor torpedo boats. The figures run in chronological order, so the extracted dataset is also a timeline: a chronology x ship x event table of captioned images, each carrying the vessels named and a date where stated.

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The dataset inside this book

The book's structured content has been extracted into a free, openly-licensed dataset: The Ship Killers — torpedo-boat figures & chronology (CC BY-NC 4.0). Every record carries its page back to the book.

349 captioned figures337 with images125 distinct ships39 dated events801 pages

Samples

Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma. Portrait by Vaenius.

Philippe of Marnix, lord of Saint-Aldegonde, fought against the Duke of Parma. Portrait by Jacques de Gheyn II.

Painted shortly after Drebbel tested his submarine in the Thames River for all of Londoners and King James to witness.8

This cutaway illustrations shows the intricacy of Bushnell’s invention and how truly precarious it would have been to operate.11 (Library of Congress)

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Sources & method

The samples above are drawn from The Ship Killers: The Definitive Illustrated History of the Torpedo Boat (Nimble Books) and extracted to structured data from the book's interior with page-level provenance. The dataset is the raw reference; the book is the authoritative work. The underlying data is published with the permission of Nimble Books LLC under CC BY-NC 4.0 — free for non-commercial and research use; commercial use requires a license from Nimble Books LLC (editorial@bigfivekiller.online).