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* {{LieutRN}} & Commander [[Gerald FitzMaurice Digby|{{HON}} Gerald F. Digby]], 28 April, 1885, for manoeuvres.<ref>''The Navy List'' (June, 1885), p. 214.</ref>
 
* {{LieutRN}} & Commander [[Gerald FitzMaurice Digby|{{HON}} Gerald F. Digby]], 28 April, 1885, for manoeuvres.<ref>''The Navy List'' (June, 1885), p. 214.</ref>
 
* {{LieutRN}} & Commander [[Alfred Henry Tarleton|Alfred H. Tarleton]], 22 May, 1886.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1886), p. 245.</ref>
 
* {{LieutRN}} & Commander [[Alfred Henry Tarleton|Alfred H. Tarleton]], 22 May, 1886.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1886), p. 245.</ref>
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* {{GunnerRN}} in Command [[Richars Southwell Curtis Staddon|Richard S. C. Staddon]], 18 July, 1889, lent for manoeuvres.<ref>"The Naval Manœuvres".  ''The Times''.  Monday, 15 July, 1889.  Issue '''32751''', col B, p. 4.</ref>
 
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Revision as of 12:10, 11 April 2014

H.M. T.B. 2 (1878)
Builder: Thornycroft[1]
Launched: 1878[2]
Broken up:
H.M. T.B. 2 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. 2 was reported as "fitted for Whitehead" and serving out of Devonport.[3]

During the crisis following the Panjdeh Incident in 1885, T.B. 2 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.[4]

In 1895, she was one of four T.B.s of less than 125 feet in length and thirteen longer ones stationed in Devonport.[5]

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. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 101. The date of launch is imprecise.
  3. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1881. p. 35.
  4. ↑ The Navy List (June, 1885), p. 214.
  5. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1895. p. 62.
  6. ↑ Streeten Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39/395
  7. ↑ The Navy List (June, 1885), p. 214.
  8. ↑ The Navy List (July, 1886), p. 245.
  9. ↑ "The Naval Manœuvres". The Times. Monday, 15 July, 1889. Issue 32751, col B, p. 4.

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 –>
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