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As an experimental vessel that spent her career as a tender to the {{UK-Vernon}}, ''Lightning'' seems never to have been assigned a commanding officer. However the Navy Lists do show a permanently assigned engineer officer, borne additional in the ''Asia'' then from 1878 onward in ''Vernon''. By 1891 this position was listed as "For service in 'Lightning', Torpedo Boats, &c."<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1891), p. 262.</ref>
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As an experimental vessel that spent her career as a tender to the {{UK-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 in the ''Asia'' then from 1878 onward in ''Vernon''. By 1891 this position was listed as "For service in 'Lightning', Torpedo Boats, &c."<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1891), p. 262.</ref>
  
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Revision as of 02:37, 9 April 2014

H.M.S. Lightning (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

In 1881, there were twenty T.B.s in all; T.B. 1 was "fitted for Whitehead" and serving as tender to Vernon.[3]

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 in the Asia then from 1878 onward in Vernon. By 1891 this position was listed as "For service in 'Lightning', Torpedo Boats, &c."[4]

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. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1881. p. 35.
  4. ↑ The Navy List (April, 1891), p. 262.
  5. ↑ The Navy List (October, 1877), p. 131.
  6. ↑ The Navy List (March, 1880), p. 249.
  7. ↑ The Navy List (October, 1882), p. 249.
  8. ↑ The Navy List (July, 1886), p. 256.

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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