HMS TB 4 (1906)
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS TB 4 |
Builder | J. Samuel White, Cowes |
Laid down | 18 September 1905 |
Launched | 30 October 1906 |
Completed | April 1907 |
Commissioned | 17 April 1907 |
Fate | Ran aground 11 January 1921 and scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Cricket-class coastal destroyer |
Displacement | 268 long tons (272 t) |
Length | 171 ft 6 in (52.27 m) oa |
Beam | 17 ft 6 in (5.33 m) |
Draught | 6 ft 4+1⁄2 in (1.943 m) |
Installed power | 3,750 shp (2,800 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph) |
Complement | 39 |
Armament |
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HMS TB 4
Design
The Cricket class, known as Coastal Destroyers, was intended as a smaller and cheaper supplement to the large, fast, but expensive
White's ships (the different shipbuilders built to their own design, although standardised machinery and armament was fitted) were 178 feet 0 inches (54.25 m)
Armament consisted of two 12-pounder (76 mm) 12 cwt guns[c], and three 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes (in three single mounts).[5][1] The ships had a crew of 39.[6]
Service
The fourth of the coastal destroyers ordered from Whites under the 1905–1906 programme was
The newly completed TB 4 was accepted from Whites and commissioned with a nucleus crew[d] as a tender to the depot ship Hecla at Portsmouth naval base on 17 April 1907.[10] On 24 October 1907, as part of the Portsmouth Flotilla, TB 4, together with the destroyers Teviot, Rocket, Shark and Vigilant, carried out a cruise in the vicinity of Portsmouth.[11] Following the loss of the destroyer
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.
The Royal Navy mobilised on the eve of the outbreak of the
On 17 November 1915, the
On the night of March 17/18 1917 Germany launched a
TB 4 remained part of the 6th Flotilla at the end of the war on 11 November 1918.[31] By March 1919, TB 4 was in reserve at Devonport,[32] and by January 1920, was, together with most of the remaining torpedo boats, listed as being for sale.[33] She was sold for scrap to the shipbreakers Thos. W. Ward on 7 October 1920, but ran aground near Westward Ho! on the way to the scrapyard on 11 January 1921 and was broken up in situ.[34][7]
Notes
- ^ Torpedo Boat No. 4
- ^ A fore deck with exaggerated camber designed to throw off sea water at high speeds.[4]
- ^ 12 cwt refers to the weight of the gun in hundredweights
- ^ Ships with nucleus crews were permanently manned with two-fifths of the ships' normal complement, consisting of key officers and men (including engineering and gunnery specialists), who would become well acquainted with their ships. The ships could be quickly mobilised by regular Navy personnel drawn from shore barracks and training establishments. This mobilisation was frequently practiced.[9]
Citations
- ^ a b c Friedman 2009, pp. 110–111
- ^ a b Brown 2003, p. 195
- ^ Friedman 2009, pp. 110, 294
- ^ Gardiner & Lambert 1992, p. 188
- ^ a b Gardiner & Gray 1985, pp. 72–73
- ^ a b Friedman 2009, p. 294
- ^ a b c Friedman 2009, p. 305
- ^ "Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times. No. 38214. 27 December 1906. p. 4.
- ^ Massie 2007, p. 465
- ^ "Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times. No. 38310. 18 April 1907. p. 8.
- ^ "Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times. No. 38473. 25 October 1907. p. 14.
- ^ "Naval Matters—Past and Prospective: Portsmouth Dockyard". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 31. May 1909. p. 379.
- ^ "Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times. No. 38933. 14 April 1909. p. 7.
- ^ "Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times. No. 39852. 21 March 1912. p. 14.
- ^ 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. Retrieved 7 June 2022 – via National Library of Scotland.
- ^ "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad: Patrol Flotillas". The Navy List. February 1914. p. 269d. Retrieved 7 June 2022 – via National Library of Scotland.
- ^ Corbett 1920, pp. 28–29
- ^ Naval Staff Monograph No. 7 1921, pp. 77–79, 102
- ^ "Ships of the Royal Navy — Location/Action Data 1914–1918: Admiralty "Pink Lists", 5 August 1914". World War 1 at Sea. naval-history.net. 24 March 2015. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
- ^ "Supplement to the Monthly Navy List showing Organisation of the Fleet, Flag Officers' Commands, &c.: Patrol Flotillas". The Navy List. January 1915. p. 12. Retrieved 7 June 2022 – via National Library of Scotland.
- ^ "Supplement to the Monthly Navy List showing Organisation of the Fleet, Flag Officers' Commands, &c.: Patrol Flotillas". The Navy List. March 1915. p. 15. Retrieved 7 June 2022 – via National Library of Scotland.
- ^ Hurd 1929, pp. 299–301
- ^ "WW1 ship wreck off Folkestone 'should be war grave'". BBC News. 20 October 2014. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
- ^ Naval Staff Monograph No. 34 1933, pp. 272–275
- ^ Newbolt 1928, pp. 362–364
- ^ Newbolt 1928, pp. 364–365
- ^ Naval Staff Monograph No. 34 1933, pp. 276–277
- ^ Naval Staff Monograph No. 34 1933, pp. 395, 402–403
- ^ "Ships of the Royal Navy — Location/Action Data 1914–1918: Admiralty "Pink Lists", 11 November 1918". World War 1 at Sea. naval-history.net. 23 March 2015. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
- ^ "Supplement to the Monthly Navy List showing Organisation of the Fleet, Flag Officers' Commands, &c.: VII.—Vessels in Reserve, &c., at Home Ports and Other Bases: Devonport". The Navy List. March 1919. p. 19. Retrieved 7 June 2022 – via National Library of Scotland.
- ^ "List of Obsolete Vessels, and Vessels for Sale". The Navy List. January 1920. pp. 1105f–1105i. Retrieved 7 June 2022 – via National Library of Scotland.
- ^ Dittmar & Colledge 1972, p. 81
References
- Brown, D. K. (2003). Warrior to Dreadnought: Warship Development 1860–1905. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 1-84067-5292.
- Corbett, Julian S. (1920). Naval Operations: Volume I, To the Battle of the Falklands December 1914. History of the Great War. London: Longmans, Green and Co.
- 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.
- Hurd, Archibald (1929). The Merchant Navy Vol. III. History of the Great War based on Official Documents. London: John Murray. OCLC 499526279.
- Manning, T. D. (1961). The British Destroyer. London: Putnam.
- ISBN 978-0-099-52402-1.
- 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.
- Monograph No. 34: Home Waters Part VIII: December 1916 to April 1917 (PDF). Naval Staff Monographs (Historical). Vol. XVIII. Naval Staff, Training and Staff Duties Division. 1933.
- Newbolt, Henry (1928). Naval Operations Vol. IV. History of the Great War based on Official Documents. London: Longmans, Green & Co.