H.M. T.B. 63 (1885)

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H.M. T.B. 63 (1885)
Builder: Yarrow[1]
Ordered: 30/31 March, 1885[2]
Launched: 1885[3]
Completed: September 1886[4]
Sold: 18 December, 1919[5]

H.M. T.B. 63 was one of 53 first-class torpedo boats of the 125 Footer class.

Service

She was stationed in Chatham in 1895 as one of eight large torpedo boats of at least 125 feet length and two smaller ones.[6] She was still stationed at Chatham in 1905, as a tender to Pembroke.[7]

Around 1906-1907, with the issuance of torpedo boat numbers to the first of the Cricket class torpedo boats, the existing Torpedo Boats numbered 25 to 79 had a "0" prepended to their number. This vessel, therefore, became T.B. 063.[8]

By late 1911 she had been transferred to Devonport and was listed as a tender to H.M.S. Vivid, and was still stationed there at the outbreak of war.[9][10]

Sold at Malta on 18 December, 1919.[11]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 103.
  2. ↑ Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 311. Date listed as uncertain.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 103. The date of launch is imprecise.
  4. ↑ Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 311.
  5. ↑ Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 311.
  6. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1895. p. 62.
  7. ↑ The Monthly Navy List. (December, 1905). p. 399.
  8. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 78.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1912). p. 401a.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (August, 1914). p. 402.
  11. ↑ Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 311.
  12. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times. Saturday, 2 July, 1887. Issue 32114, col C, p. 12.
  13. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times. Tuesday, 3 July, 1888. Issue 32428, col A, p. 10.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1918). p. 958.

Bibliography


125 Footer Class First-class Torpedo Boat
Prototype
  T.B. 25  
Thornycroft Boats
T.B. 26 T.B. 27 T.B. 28 T.B. 29 T.B. 41
T.B. 42 T.B. 43 T.B. 44 T.B. 45 T.B. 46
T.B. 47 T.B. 48 T.B. 49 T.B. 50 T.B. 51
T.B. 52 T.B. 53 T.B. 54 T.B. 55 T.B. 56
  T.B. 57 T.B. 58 T.B. 59 T.B. 60  
Yarrow Boats
T.B. 30 T.B. 31 T.B. 32 T.B. 33 T.B. 61
T.B. 62 T.B. 63 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. 74 T.B. 75 T.B. 76
  T.B. 77 T.B. 78  
White Boats
T.B. 34 T.B. 35 T.B. 36 T.B. 37 T.B. 38
Yarrow Special
  T.B. 79  
<– H.M. T.B. 81 Torpedo Boats (UK) H.M. T.B. 80 –>
<– H.M. T.B. 81 First-class Torpedo Boats (UK) H.M. T.B. 80 –>
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