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==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
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==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Revision as of 19:13, 5 April 2014

H.M. T.B. 14 (1878)
Builder: Yarrow[1]
Launched: 1878[2]
Broken up: 1904[3]
H.M. T.B. 14 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. 14 was not fitted for Whitehead and was one of three boats serving out of Chatham. There was some noted lethargy in getting these boats all armed.[4]

In 1895, she was one of four T.B.s of less than 125 feet in length stationed in Portsmouth along with twenty-three larger T.B.s..[5]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 102.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 102. The date of launch is imprecise.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 102.
  4. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1881. p. 35.
  5. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1895. p. 62.
  6. The Navy List (July, 1886), p. 245.

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 –>