The Austrian gunboat Gemse is adapted for…

The Austrian gunboat Gemse is adapted for launching torpedoes at the Schiavon shipyard in Fiume.

The ship is equipped with a launching barrel, which is Whitehead's invention.

More than fifty launch trials are performed in front of the factory, in Fiume harbor bay.

Gemse's commander, frigate lieutenant Count Georg Anton of Hoyos, will later marry Whitehead’s daughter Alice.