H.M. T.B. 12 (1878)

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H.M. T.B. 12 (1880)
Builder: Thornycroft[1]
Ordered: 3 October, 1877[2]
Launched: 1880[3]
Commissioned: 1880[4]
Broken up: 1904[5]
H.M. T.B. 12 was one of 19 first-class torpedo boats of the T.B. 1 class.

Service

In 1881, there were twenty first-class torpedo boats in all, and T.B. 12 was equipped with an outrigger torpedo (rather than Whitehead) and one of eleven boats serving out of Portsmouth. She was the only boat with an outrigger torpedo.[6]

During the crisis following the Panjdeh Incident in 1885, T.B. 12 was put into commission as part of Admiral Phipps Hornby's Particular Service Squadron on 28 April, and was later involved in the year's Annual Manoeuvres at Berehaven.[7]

Commissioned as tender to Template:UK-2Valorous in May 1886 for flotilla manoeuvres.[8][9]

She was stationed in Chatham in 1895, one of two torpedo boats of less than 125 feet, along with eight of greater length.[10]

T.B. 12 was sold, probably for scrapping, in 1904.[11]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 101.
  2. Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 309.
  3. Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 309.
  4. Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 309.
  5. Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 309.
  6. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1881. pp. 35-6.
  7. The Navy List. (June, 1885). p. 214.
  8. The Navy List. (July, 1886). p. 245.
  9. "Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times. Thursday, 27 May, 1886. Issue 31770, col D, p. 7.
  10. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1895. p. 62.
  11. Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 309.
  12. Leah Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39/29
  13. The Navy List. (June, 1885). p. 214.
  14. The Navy List. (July, 1886). p. 245.
  15. "The Naval Manœuvres". The Times. Monday, 15 July, 1889. Issue 32751, col F, p. 3.

Bibliography

  • 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).


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