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  TB2 (Naval History and Heritage Command)    

Ships

Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
TB2	71	Thornycroft, Chiswick	1878	1878	1878	sold 1897
TB3	72	Thornycroft, Chiswick	1878	1878	1878	sold 1904-5
TB4	73	Thornycroft, Chiswick	1878	1878	1879	sold 1905
TB5	74	Thornycroft, Chiswick	1878	1879	1879	sold 1897
TB6	75	Thornycroft, Chiswick	1879	1879	1879	BU 1905
TB7	76	Thornycroft, Chiswick	1879	1879	1879	sold 1904
TB8	77	Thornycroft, Chiswick	1879	1879	1879	BU 1903
TB9	78	Thornycroft, Chiswick	1879	1879	1879	BU 1900
TB10	79	Thornycroft, Chiswick	1879	1879	1880	BU 1900
TB11	80	Thornycroft, Chiswick	1879	1880	1880	BU 1904
TB12	81	Thornycroft, Chiswick	1879	1880	1880	sold 1904

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	28
Displacement full, t	32
Length, m	TB2-9, 11-12: 26.3 pp 26.5 oa TB10: 27.7 pp 27.9 oa
Breadth, m	3.1
Draught, m	1.60
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 2-cyl VCE, 1 locomotive boiler
Power, h. p.	460
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	coal 3
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 406 TT (3)
Complement	15

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Project history

With the success of the Lightning a class of improved sisters was ordered from her builder. These differed from her in not having the coach top aft, and they all had her final armament arrangement from the start, TB10 was the odd man out, having a ram bow and therefore somewhat different lines, but otherwise was the same. For some time they were considered 'very fair seaboats' but were really too small and fragile for successful service in the open sea, and became rapidly obsolete. By 1886 they could make about 16kts at sea. They were later fitted with 2 torpedoes in dropping gear. A couple were used for trials with various forms of spar torpedo.

Modernizations

1880s, all: - 1 x 1 - 406 TT; + 2 - 356 TC

Naval service

No significant events.

(Naval History and Heritage Command)