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The Whitehead Mark 5 torpedo was a Whitehead torpedo adopted by the United States Navy for use in an anti-surface ship role in 1910. The Mark 5 was the first torpedo to be manufactured by a foreign company the Whitehead facility in the United Kingdom and in 1908 by the Naval Torpedo Station in Newport Rhode Island. It was also the first torpedo to allow the firing ship to vary its speed and range.