India Office Class Torpedo Boat (1887)

The India Office ordered seven first-class boats for the Royal Indian Marine based on the 125 Footer class of two years previous, but by 1892, these had still not been delivered. The Royal Navy took them up, renumbering them as T.B. 100-106 in 1901.^[1]

Overview of 7 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Original Name	Royal Indian Marine Number	Post-1901 Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Completed	Fate
Baluchi	No. 1	T.B. 100	John I. Thornycroft & Company		1887		Broken up 1909
Karen	No. 2	T.B. 102	John I. Thornycroft & Company		1887		Broken up 1909
Pathan	No. 3	T.B. 103	John I. Thornycroft & Company		1887		Broken up 1909
Gurkha	No. 7	T.B. 101	Hanna, Donald & Wilson		1887		Broken up 1920
Mahratta	No. 4	T.B. 104	J. S. White		1889		Broken up 1920
Sikh	No. 5	T.B. 105	J. S. White		1889		Broken up 1920
Rajput	No. 6	T.B. 106	J. S. White		1889		Broken up 1910

Service

In 1895, T.B. 101 was stationed at Calcutta while her sisters were at Bombay.^[2]

Common Characteristics

Five 14-in torpedo tubes. Two 1-in twin-barrelled Nordenfeld guns. An alternative armament permitted them to land the tubes for some number of 3-pdr guns.^[Inference]^[3]

Thornycroft Boats

These three boats could make 23 knots and had water-tube boilers and displaced 96 tons. Reboilered soon after 1900. Had been issued R.I.M. numbers 1-3 and names before being taken up by the Royal Navy.

Hanna, Donald & Wilson Boat

T.B. 101 could make 21.5 knots and displaced 92 tons. She was re-boilered in 1905. She had been issued R.I.M. numbers 7 and name Gurkha before being taken up by the Royal Navy.

White Boats

These three boats shared the White "turnabout" stern and were nimble. They could make 22 knots and displaced 95 tons. Had been issued R.I.M. numbers 4-6 and names before being taken up by the Royal Navy.