H.M. T.B. 5 (1878)

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H.M. T.B. 5 (1878)
Builder: Thornycroft[1]
Ordered: 3 October, 1877[2]
Launched: 1879[3]
Completed: 1879
Sold: 1897
H.M. T.B. 5 was one of 19 first-class torpedo boats of the T.B. 1 class.

Service

During the crisis following the Panjdeh Incident in 1885, T.B. 5 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]

T.B. 5 was sold at Devonport, presumably for scrap, in 1897, although her engine was retained for use at Devonport Dockyard.[6]

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. 308.
  4. The Navy List (June, 1885), p. 214.
  5. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1895. p. 62.
  6. Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 308.
  7. Rolleston Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39/365
  8. The Navy List. (June, 1885). p. 214.
  9. The Navy List. (July, 1886). p. 245.

Bibliography


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