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Revision as of 13:43, 3 June 2014

H.M. T.B. 1 (1876)
Builder: Thornycroft[1]
Launched: 1876
Broken up: 1896[2]
H.M.S. Lightning (later designated T.B. 1) was one of 19 first-class torpedo boats of the T.B. 1 class.

Service

She arrived at Portsmouth from Thornycroft's shipyard at Chiswick on 10 May, 1877, to run her official steam trials and for fitting out with torpedo gear. At this time she had already reached 12 knots on trial quite easily.[3]

Further trials proved Lightning to be a very unhandy vessel—at full power her turning radius was the same as the big unarmored frigate Shah.[4]

After her boiler was retubed, Lightning ran a speed trial on 17 January, 1879 and reached a mean speed of 17.5 knots.[5]

In 1881, there were twenty T.B.s in all; T.B. 1 was "fitted for Whitehead" and serving as tender to Vernon.[6]

Captains

As an experimental vessel that spent her career as a tender to the Vernon, Lightning seems never to have been assigned an official commanding officer. However she was, unusually for torpedo boats, assigned an permanent engineer officer, borne additional initially in the Asia then from 1878 onward in Vernon. By 1891 this position was listed as "For service in 'Lightning', Torpedo Boats, &c."[7]

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 101.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 101.
  3. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times. Friday, 11 May, 1877. Issue 28939, col F, p. 10.
  4. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times. Tuesday, 11 September, 1877. Issue 29044, col E, p. 8.
  5. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times. Tuesday, 21 January, 1879. Issue 29470, col E, p. 10.
  6. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1881. p. 35.
  7. ↑ The Navy List (April, 1891), p. 262.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1877). p. 131.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1880). p. 249.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1882). p. 249.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1886). p. 256.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1891). p. 262.

Bibliography


T.B. 1 Class First-class Torpedo Boat
Lightning
  T.B. 1  
Thornycroft Repeat Lightnings
T.B. 2 T.B. 3 T.B. 4 T.B. 5 T.B. 6
  T.B. 7 T.B. 8 T.B. 9  
  T.B. 10 T.B. 11 T.B. 12  
Other Builders
T.B. 13 T.B. 14 T.B. 15 T.B. 17 T.B. 18
  T.B. 19 T.B. 20  
  Torpedo Boats (UK) H.M. T.B. 63 –>
  First-class Torpedo Boats (UK) T.B. 39 Class –>
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