NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
TB98, 1906- TB098			Thornycroft, Chiswick	1900	22.1.1901	1901	sold 6.1920
TB99, 1906- TB099			Thornycroft, Chiswick	1900	1901	1901	sold 7.1920
TB107			Thornycroft, Chiswick	1900	1901	1901	sold 7.1920
TB108			Thornycroft, Chiswick	1900	1901	1901	sold 7.1920

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	178
Displacement full, t	185
Length, m	50.0 oa 48.8 pp
Breadth, m	5.18
Draught, m	1.78
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	3000
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

TB99 sank in 1907 but was salved.