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ROYAL NAVY (UNITED KINGDOM)

TORPEDO SHIPS

TB14 torpedo boat (1879)

TB14 1880

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
TB14   425 Yarrow, Poplar 1878 1879 3.1879 Discarded 1904

 

Displacement normal, t

33

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

26.2 oa 25.6 pp

Breadth, m

3.35

Draught, m

1.35

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 2-cyl VC, 1 locomotive boiler

Power, h. p.

550

Max speed, kts

21.7

Fuel, t

coal 5

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 406 TT (3)

Complement

15

hip project history: Generally considered the best of the batch, a good seaboat and fast (she made 16kts at sea in 1886), but her accommodation was very bad.

Modernizations: 1880s: - 1 x 1 - 406 TT; + 2 - 356 TC

Naval service: No significant events.

TB14

 

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