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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
TB114			White, Cowes	1902	8.6.1903	1904	sold 1919
TB115			White, Cowes	1902	19.11.1903	1904	sold 1919
TB116			White, Cowes	1902	21.12.1903	1904	sold 10.1921
TB117			White, Cowes	1902	18.2.1904	1905	collision 10.6.1917

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	219
Displacement full, t
Length, m	50.3 pp
Breadth, m	5.33
Draught, m	2.59
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 White boilers
Power, h. p.	3050
Max speed, kts	25
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	3 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 3 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement	32

Project history

All followed the basic arrangement of the original Thornycroft design with 3 450mm TT and 3 3pdr, both guns and torpedoes being disposed in a triangular layout, one on each side forward and one amidships aft. Though bigger and more seaworthy than their predecessors they were quite overshadowed by the destroyers which were in service in considerable numbers whilst the earliest of these TBs were building.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

TB117 was sunk 10.6.1917 in collision with s/s Kamouraska in the English Channel.