Heritage
Whitehead left his fortune to his granddaughter Agathe Whitehead. In 1911, Agathe married Georg Ludwig von Trapp, who used torpedoes as a submarine commander in the First World War. Trapp and Agathe had seven children, who after Trapp's marriage to his second wife, Maria, became the Trapp Family Singers.
Whitehead is buried at the Parish Church of St Nicholas, Worth in Crawley, West Sussex with his wife. His grave is visible from the church gate at the left-hand side of the church, and is encompassed with blue railings. His epitaph reads "His fame was known by all nations hereabouts".
Kozala Cemetery in Fiume/Rijeka is home to the Whitehead Family Mausoleum.
His invention of the torpedo was a key development in naval history.
- "But for the Whitehead the submarine would remain an interesting toy, and little more" - RN Admiral H.J. May.
- "The only thing that really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril" - Sir Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II.
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