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==See Also==
==See Also==
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==Footnotes==
==Footnotes==

Revision as of 21:24, 5 January 2014

The thirty-six Cricket Class Torpedo Boats were originally dubbed "coastal destroyers", but were reclassified as first-class torpedo boats before 1907.

The first twelve ordered were given names but were re-numbered - confusingly - as T.B. 1-12 as part of the denigration to torpedo boats.

Two additional orders of twelve boats each followed, and these boats never had names, but only numbers T.B. 13-36.[1]

Career

It was decided in June 1914 that these ships were not to be fitted with searchlight control.[2]

Armament

In late-1913, the 12-pdr mountings were equipped with percussion firing gear.[4]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. pp. 72-3.
  2. Admiralty Weekly Order No. 43 of 19 June, 1914.
  3. Torpedo Manual, Vol. III, 1909. pp. 233.
  4. Admiralty Weekly Order No. 430 of 1 Aug, 1913.

Bibliography


Cricket Class First-class Torpedo Boat
1905 Order
T.B. 1 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  
November 1906 Order
T.B. 13 T.B. 14 T.B. 15 T.B. 16 T.B. 17
T.B. 18 T.B. 19 T.B. 20 T.B. 21 T.B. 22
  T.B. 23 T.B. 24  
September 1907 Order
T.B. 25 T.B. 26 T.B. 27 T.B. 28 T.B. 29
T.B. 30 T.B. 31 T.B. 32 T.B. 33 T.B. 34
  T.B. 35 T.B. 36  
<– T.B. 114 Class Torpedo Boats (UK)  
<– T.B. 114 Class First-class Torpedo Boats (UK)