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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
TB20			Rennie, Blackfriars	1880	1880	1880	sold 1903

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	28
Displacement full, t
Length, m	26.5 oa
Breadth, m	3.05
Draught, m	1.22
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 2-cyl VCE, 1 locomotive boiler
Power, h. p.	360
Max speed, kts	16.75
Fuel, t	coal 3
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 356 TT (2)
Complement	15

Project history

This boat was ordered from Rennie 8.5.1878. On trials she was rejected by the RN as unsatisfactory and sold abroad. Rennie instead built new TB20 as a replacement, which was accepted and purchased by the RN 25.3.1880. However, she ultimately still proved unsuccessful, being much slower than the rest of this batch, and spent most of her life at Hong Kong where she was sold for breaking up in 1903. In 1894 she was reported to be unable to keep up her top speed of 11kts for very long, and her turning powers were very bad.

Modernizations

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

Naval service

No significant events.