The Torpedo Service was the branch of the Royal Netherlands Navy

Royal Netherlands Navy

The Koninklijke Marine is the navy of the Netherlands. In the mid-17th century the Dutch Navy was the most powerful navy in the world and it played an active role in the wars of the Dutch Republic and later those of the Batavian Republic and the Kingdom of the Netherlands...

 dealing with torpedo

Torpedo

The modern torpedo is a self-propelled missile weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with it or in proximity to it.The term torpedo was originally employed for...

es and (until 1907, when the Mine Service

Mine Service

The Mine Service is the wing of the Royal Netherlands Navy dealing with mine-laying and minesweeping. It was established in 1907 from the Torpedo Service ....

 split off from it) mines. It was set up in 1870 and originally manned all the navy's small ships, including the submarine Hr. Ms. O 1 (the Dutch Submarine Service

Royal Netherlands Navy Submarine Service

The Royal Netherlands Navy Submarine Service was the department of the Royal Netherlands Navy dealing with submarines. It was set up on 21 December 1906, out of the Torpedo Service, and merged with the Mine Service on 15 July 2005....

arose from it), accounting for 1000 personnel in 1914. This dropped to 500 after the Second World War and in 1978, when the last mechanical torpedo (the Mark 8) in use by the Dutch Navy was phased out and replaced by electric torpedoes, the Service was disestablished.