The administration held high hopes for the wage-price guidelines but the surge of inflation generated by the oil price increases of 1979 torpedoed them at launch.
He turned round and accused me of having said that submarines had not torpedoed any capital ship.
Portions of cargoes from torpedoed ships also arrived in a condition only suitable for rendering purposes, and were disposed of accordingly.
There were many cases also of oilers being torpedoed, but in no case did they take fire.
This, of course, largely torpedoed the contribution which was foreseen for agriculture in this respect.
The ship was torpedoed close to a sandbank.
No fewer than 40 trawlers were torpedoed by enemy action.
Pilots are entitled to a badge if they have been at sea for not less than thirty days after having been mined or torpedoed.