H.M. T.B. 37 (1885)

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H.M. T.B. 37 (1885)
Builder: J. S. White[1]
Launched: 1885[2]
Broken up: 1919[3]
H.M. T.B. 37 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. 037.[4]

Service

In 1895, she was one of six first-class T.B.s stationed at Hong Kong.[5]

In July, 1904, complaints from Vice-Admiral Noel of the China Station about the condition of his T.B.s and T.B.D.s prompted a review of his assets by First Lord of the Admiralty Selborne. Within, it was noted that T.B.s 35-38 had never been re-boilered, but that they should remain functional until new boilers from J. & S. White were available.[6]

By 1914 T.B. 037 was assigned to the Hong Kong Defence Flotilla.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 103.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 103. The date of launch is imprecise.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 103.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 78.
  5. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1895. p. 62.
  6. Letter from Selborne to Noel dated 15 July 1904 contained in Noel Papers at the National Maritime Museum. (NOE/5/2).
  7. Wyndham-Quin. "T.B. 037—I." p. 229.
  8. "Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times. Saturday, 2 July, 1887. Issue 32114, col C, p. 12.
  9. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1894. p. 196.
  10. The Navy List (March, 1913), p. 382.
  11. The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 384.

Bibliography

  • Wyndham-Quin, V. (July, 1977) "T.B. 037—I." The Naval Review 65 (3): pp. 229-233.
  • Wyndham-Quin, V. (October, 1977) "T.B. 037—II." The Naval Review 65 (4): pp. 371-374.


125 Footer Class First-class Torpedo Boat
Prototype
  T.B. 25  
Thornycroft Boats
T.B. 26 T.B. 27 T.B. 28 T.B. 29 T.B. 41
T.B. 42 T.B. 43 T.B. 44 T.B. 45 T.B. 46
T.B. 47 T.B. 48 T.B. 49 T.B. 50 T.B. 51
T.B. 52 T.B. 53 T.B. 54 T.B. 55 T.B. 56
  T.B. 57 T.B. 58 T.B. 59 T.B. 60  
Yarrow Boats
T.B. 30 T.B. 31 T.B. 32 T.B. 33 T.B. 61
T.B. 62 T.B. 63 T.B. 64 T.B. 65 T.B. 66
T.B. 67 T.B. 68 T.B. 69 T.B. 70 T.B. 71
T.B. 72 T.B. 73 T.B. 74 T.B. 75 T.B. 76
  T.B. 77 T.B. 78  
White Boats
T.B. 34 T.B. 35 T.B. 36 T.B. 37 T.B. 38
Yarrow Special
  T.B. 79  
<– H.M. T.B. 81 Torpedo Boats (UK) H.M. T.B. 80 –>
<– H.M. T.B. 81 First-class Torpedo Boats (UK) H.M. T.B. 80 –>