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TB80  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
TB80, 1906- TB080		748	Yarrow, Poplar	1886	1887	5.1887	sold 10.1921

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	105
Displacement full, t
Length, m	41.2 pp
Breadth, m	4.27
Draught, m	1.83
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 1 locomotive boiler
Power, h. p.	1539
Max speed, kts	23
Fuel, t	coal 32
Endurance, nm(kts)	2850(10)
Armament	3 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 1 - 356 TT (bow), 1 x 2 - 356 TT
Complement	21

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Project history

This was the first British TB to befitted with the 'turtle back' bow, which made for greater seaworthiness, as did her greater size. She was based on a design produced by Yarrow for Austria, and was often referred to as the Falke type. Like the previous boats she was ordered as part of the 1885/6 programme. She was considered rather superior to the slightly later TB82 type by the same builder, being better able to keep up her speed, but she had to be reboilered early in her career (1898), when her original single funnel was replaced by two. The original intention appears to have been to carry two pairs of deck TTs, and the alternative armament of 4-3pdr with only the bow tube for anti-TB work was retained as a possibility throughout her early career.

Modernizations

1898: was reboilered with 2 water-tube boilers

Naval service

After war service as a patrol craft she was broken up in 1921.