As I already wrote about, Cushing lost one of the two steam picket boats he was going to use against the CSS Albemarle on his way from New York to North Carolina on October 8, 1864.
In a postwar journal he wrote about his dissatisfaction with the torpedoes he was to use: "The torpedo was, O believe, the invention of Engineer Jay of the navy and was introduced by Chief Engineer Wood. It has many defects and I would not again attempt its use."
--Old B-Runner
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