The local Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 9 June 1877 published a small news item according to which the Italian navy fitted her newly built armoured turret ship Duilio out with a sort of armoured dry dock in the stern in which a torpedo boat was hiding. (1) In case the Duilio approached a hostile ship close enough was the torpedo boat launched for an attack and afterwards returning to her hiding place.

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