H.M. T.B. 52 (1885)

H.M. T.B. 52 (1886)
Builder:	John I. Thornycroft & Company
Ordered:	30 April/1 May, 1885
Launched:	1886
Completed:	September 1886
Sold:	19 December, 1919

H.M. T.B. 52 was one of 53 first-class torpedo boats of the 125 Footer class.

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. 052.

Service

In 1895, she was one of thirteen T.B.s of 125 feet or greater length and four smaller ones stationed in Devonport.

She commissioned on 8 July to participate in the Annual Manoeuvres of 1896 under the command of Acting Sub-Lieutenant in Command D. T. Morris, whom I have been unavble to identify precisely.

Sold to Multilocular Shipbreaking Co. on 19 December, 1919.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant & Commander Godfrey H. B. Mundy, 1 July, 1887  (lent for Annual Manoeuvres of 1887 & Jubilee Review)
• Lieutenant & Commander Robert J. Prendergast, 4 July, 1888 – 25 August, 1888  (for Annual Manoeuvres of 1888)
• Lieutenant & Commander James C. Tancred, 18 July, 1889 – 8 September, 1889  (for Annual Manoeuvres of 1889)
• Lieutenant & Commander Philip J. Hodges, 22 July 1890 – 16 September, 1890  (for Annual Manoeuvres of 1890)
• Lieutenant Reginald H. S. Bacon, 21 July 1891  (for Annual Manoeuvres of 1891)
• Sub-Lieutenant in Command Louis C. S. Woollcombe, 11 July, 1893 – 17 August, 1893  (for Annual Manoeuvres of 1893)
• Acting Sub-Lieutenant in Command Fawcett Wray, 18 July, 1894  (lent for Annual Manoeuvres of 1894)
• Sub-Lieutenant in Command James S. Parker, 15 June, 1897  (for Naval Review at Spithead)
• Acting Sub-Lieutenant in Command Edward O. B. S. Osborne, 21 July, 1903  (for Annual Manoeuvres of 1903)
• Sub-Lieutenant in Command John S. G. Fraser, 14 July, 1904 – 25 October, 1904  (for Annual Manoeuvres of 1904)
• Lieutenant & Commander Hugh T. England, 3 January, 1905 – 10 November, 1905
• Lieutenant & Commander Ralph L. Clayton, 10 November, 1905 – 1 November, 1906
• Lieutenant & Commander Guy C. C. Royle, 1 November, 1906 – 23 November, 1906  (remained as Lieut until 16 July, 1907)
• Lieutenant & Commander Reginald C. Richardson, 16 July, 1907 – 3 March, 1908
• Lieutenant & Commander Herbert F. Littledale, 3 March, 1908 – 22 July, 1909
• Lieutenant & Commander Charles H. Jones, 22 July, 1909 – December, 1909
• Lieutenant & Commander Francis H. W. Goolden, 15 December, 1909 – 7 September, 1911^[Inference]
• Lieutenant & Commander John L. Field, 7 September, 1911 – 10 March, 1914
• Lieutenant in Command William Ahern, 10 March, 1914 – 1919^{[Fact Check]}

See Also

• Wikipedia