H.M. T.B. 1 (1876)

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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 who spent her career as a tender to the Vernon, Lightning seems never to have been assigned a commanding officer. However the Navy Lists do show a permanently assigned engineer officer.

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 (March, 1880), p. 249.
  5. 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 –>