nearly sister-ship TB109 1902
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| TB98, 1906- TB098 | Thornycroft, Chiswick | 1900 | 22.1.1901 | 1901 | sold 6.1920 | ||
| TB99, 1906- TB099 | Thornycroft, Chiswick | 1900 | 1901 | 1901 | sold 7.1920 | ||
| TB107 | Thornycroft, Chiswick | 1900 | 1901 | 1901 | sold 7.1920 | ||
| TB108 | Thornycroft, Chiswick | 1900 | 1901 | 1901 | sold 7.1920 |
|
Displacement normal, t |
178 |
|
Displacement full, t |
185 |
|
Length, m |
50.0 oa 48.8 pp |
|
Breadth, m |
5.18 |
|
Draught, m |
1.78 |
|
No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
2 VTE, 2 Thornycroft boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
3000 |
|
Max speed, kts |
25 |
|
Fuel, t |
coal |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
|
|
Armament |
3 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 3 x 1 - 450 TT |
|
Complement |
32 |
Project history: All followed the basic arrangement of the original Thornycroft design with 3 450mm TT and 3 3pdr, both guns and torpedoes being disposed in a triangular layout, one on each side forward and one amidships aft. Though bigger and more seaworthy than their predecessors they were quite overshadowed by the destroyers which were in service in considerable numbers whilst the earliest of these TBs were building.
The first pair were ordered under the 1899/1900 programme, the others a year
later. They proved to be very short ranged (only capable of 6 hours' steaming at
full speed), as indeed were all this group.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: TB99 sank in 1907 but was salved.
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