H.M. T.B. 68 (1881)

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H.M. T.B. 68 (1881)
Builder: Thornycroft[1]
Ordered: 1879[2]
Launched: 1881[3][Inference]
Commissioned: 1881[4]
Discarded: c. 1905[Inference][5]

H.M. T.B. 68 was one of ten second-class torpedo boats of the T.B. 64 class.

Construction

Lyon and Winfield give T.B. 68's launch date as "16.2.1882(?)", which contradicts Conway's date of 1880.[6][7] It also contradicts a statement in the Annual Report of the Torpedo School that she was commissioned in 1881.[8]

Service

Upon her completion in 1881, she was one of three of her class sent to Devonport.[9]

According to Lyon and Winfield, T.B. 68 was "[t]ransferred to Newfoundland." It is unclear whether this means she was simply stationed there or turned over to the Colony of Newfoundland's government. In either case, her subsequent fate after the transfer is unlisted.[10] Along with the rest of the second-class torpedo boats, she disappears from Brassey's Naval Annual's listing of British torpedo craft after 1905.[11][12]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 105.
  2. ↑ Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 313.
  3. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1881. p. 37.
  4. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1881. p. 37.
  5. ↑ Brassey's Naval Annual 1905. p. 320.
  6. ↑ Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 313.
  7. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 105.
  8. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1881. p. 37.
  9. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1881. p. 37.
  10. ↑ Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 313.
  11. ↑ Brassey's Naval Annual 1905. p. 320.
  12. ↑ Brassey's Naval Annual 1906. p. 290.

Bibliography

  • Brassey, T. A. ed. (1902). The Naval Annual, 1902. Portsmouth: J. Griffin and Co.
  • Brown, David K. (2005). Jordan, John. ed. "Steam Torpedo Boats of the Royal Navy". Warship 2005: pp. 73-96.
  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Lyon, David; Winfield, Rif (2004). The Sail & Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy, 1815-1889. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1861760329. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).


T.B. 64 Class Second-class Torpedo Boat
T.B. 64 T.B. 65 T.B. 66 T.B. 67 T.B. 68
T.B. 69 T.B. 70 T.B. 71 T.B. 72 T.B. 73
<– T.B. 51 Class Torpedo Boats (UK) H.M. T.B. 98 –>
<– T.B. 51 Class Second-class Torpedo Boats (UK) H.M. T.B. 98 –>
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