Difference between revisions of "T.B. 39 Class Torpedo Boat (1882)"

From The Dreadnought Project
Jump to: navigation, search
(Bibliography)
(Bibliography)
Line 54: Line 54:
 
cat=FirstClassTorpedoBoat
 
cat=FirstClassTorpedoBoat
 
type=first-class torpedo boat
 
type=first-class torpedo boat
 +
prefix=H.M.
  
 
chain=Torpedo Boats,First-class Torpedo Boats
 
chain=Torpedo Boats,First-class Torpedo Boats

Revision as of 14:59, 18 May 2013

The two first-class torpedo boats of the T.B. 39 Class were Yarrow-built boats of 100 feet and 40 tons originally built for Chile.

Overview of 2 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name Builder Laid Down Launched Completed Fate
T.B. 39 Yarrow 1882 Sold 1905
T.B. 40 Yarrow 1882 Sold 1905

Armament

A single (bow-mounted?) tube for 14-in Whitehead torpedoes and two 1-in twin barrelled Nordenfelds. By 1900, they were rearmed with two 14-in torpedoes in dropping gear and 0.45-in 5-barrelled Nordenfelds.[1]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 103.

Bibliography


T.B. 39 Class First-class Torpedo Boat
  T.B. 39 T.B. 40  
<– T.B. 76 Class Torpedo Boats (UK) T.B. 1 Class –>
<– T.B. 1 Class First-class Torpedo Boats (UK) 113 Footer Class –>