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ROYAL NAVY (UNITED KINGDOM)

TORPEDO SHIPS

TB15 torpedo boat (1879)

nearly sister-ship TB14 1880

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
TB15     Hanna, Donald & Wilson, Paisley 1879 1879 1879 BU 1905

 

Displacement normal, t

28

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

26.5 oa 25.6 pp

Breadth, m

3.12

Draught, m

1.70

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 2-cyl VC, 1 locomotive boiler

Power, h. p.

450

Max speed, kts

21

Fuel, t

coal 3

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 406 TT (3)

Complement

15

hip project history: One of Lightning successors.

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

Naval service: In 1903 her hull was used as retaining wall at Cape, BU in 1905.

 

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