HMS TB 13 (1907)
| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS TB 13 |
| Builder | J. Samuel White, Cowes |
| Laid down | 14 March 1907 |
| Launched | 10 July 1907 |
| Completed | May 1908 |
| Fate | Sunk in collision 26 January 1916 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Cricket-class coastal destroyer |
| Displacement | 270 long tons (270 t) |
| Length | 185 ft 3 in (56.46 m) oa |
| Beam | 18 ft 0 in (5.49 m) |
| Draught | 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) |
| Installed power | 4,000 shp (3,000 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 26 kn (30 mph; 48 km/h) |
| Complement | 39 |
| Armament |
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HMS TB 13 was a
Design
The Cricket-class was intended as a smaller and cheaper supplement to the large, fast, but expensive
White's ships were 184 feet 3 inches (56.16 m) long with a
Armament consisted of two 12-pounder (76-mm) 12 cwt guns[b], and three 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes (in three single mounts).[3][1] The ships had a crew of 35.[3]
Service
The first of White's 1906–1907 ships, TB 13 was laid down at White's Cowes shipyard on 14 March 1907, was launched on 10 July 1907 and completed in May 1908.[6]
TB 13 commissioned into the Devonport Flotilla of the Home Fleet on 17 June 1909.[7]
In July–August 1909, TB 13 took part in the Naval Manoeuvres, during which she collided with the torpedo-boat TB 19. TB 13 was badly holed, with her engine rooms and stokeholds flooded, and was brought into Portsmouth by the torpedo boat TB 20 and the torpedo-gunboat Niger.[8]
In 1912, four Patrol Flotillas were formed with torpedo boats and older destroyers, with the duties of preventing enemy minelaying or torpedo attacks on the east coast of Britain.
In November 1914, TB 13 was listed as part of the Eighth Patrol Flotilla, based on the Tyne.[13]
TB 13 was lost in a collision in the North Sea on 26 January 1916.[14]
Notes
- ^ A fore deck with exaggerated camber designed to throw off sea water at high speeds.[5]
- ^ 12 cwt refers to the weight of the gun in hundredweights
Citations
- ^ a b c Friedman 2009, pp. 110–111
- ^ a b Brown 2003, p. 195
- ^ a b c d Gardiner & Gray 1985, pp. 72–73
- ^ a b Moore 1990, p. 79
- ^ Gardiner & Lambert 1992, p. 188
- ^ Friedman 2009, p. 305
- ^ "Naval Matters—Past and Prospective: Devonport Dockyard". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 31. July 1909. p. 462.
- ^ "Naval Matters—Past and Prospective: Portsmouth Dockyard". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 32. September 1909. p. 56.
- ^ Manning 1961, p. 25
- ^ Naval Staff Monograph No. 7 1921, pp. 73–77
- ^ "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad: Patrol Flotillas". The Navy List. March 1913. p. 269d.
- ^ "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad: Patrol Flotillas". The Navy List. August 1914. p. 269c.
- ^ "Ships of the Royal Navy — Location/Action Data 1914–1918: Admiralty "Pink Lists", 1 November 1914". World War 1 at Sea. naval-history.net. 24 March 2015. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
- ^ Dittmar & Colledge 1972, p. 81
References
- Brown, D. K. (2003). Warrior to Dreadnought: Warship Development 1860–1905. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 1-84067-5292.
- Dittmar, F. J.; Colledge, J. J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. Shepperton, UK: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0380-7.
- Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-049-9.
- Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal, eds. (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
- Gardiner, Robert; Lambert, Andrew, eds. (1992). Steam, Steel & Shellfire: The Steam Warship 1815–1905. Conway's History of the Ship. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-564-0.
- Manning, T. D. (1961). The British Destroyer. London: Putnam.
- Monograph No. 7: The Patrol Flotillas at the Commencement of the War (PDF). Naval Staff Monographs (Historical). Vol. III. Naval Staff, Training and Staff Duties Division. 1921. pp. 71–107.
- Moore, John (1990). Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I. London: Studio Editions. ISBN 1-85170-378-0.
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