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TALBOT torpedo boats (1898)


Ships


Names Builders Commissioned Losses Transfers Discarding

TB15 Talbot

TB16 Gwin

Herreshoff, Bristol: TB15, 16

4/1898: TB15, 16

none

none

5/1912: TB15

4/1914: TB16



Technical data


Displacement normal, t

46

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

30.5

Breadth, m

3.81

Draught, m

0.99 mean

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 Normand boiler

Power, h. p.

850

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

coal 9

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 37/40 Driggs-Schroeder heavy Mk I, 2 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

12



Project history

Authorised under the Act of 10.6.1896. Single funnel, two single TT forward of funnel and far aft.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Gwin decommissioned and used as ferry April 1914, later under name Cyane. Talbot was used for oil fuel trials in 1900.