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that was characteristic of early
British TBDs. All six of them were removed from service and disposed of by the end of 1912, and thus were not affected by the Admiralty decision in 1913 to group all the surviving 27-knot and 30-knot destroyers (which had followed on these six 26-knot vessels) into
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The defence against torpedo boats was clear: small warships accompanying the fleet that could screen and protect it from attack by torpedo boats. Several
European navies developed vessels variously known as torpedo boat "catchers", "hunters" and "destroyers", while the Royal Navy itself operated
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and three 6-pounder guns, with one fixed 18-in torpedo tube in the bow plus two more torpedo tubes on a revolving mount abaft the two funnels. Later the bow torpedo tube was removed and two more 6-pounder guns added instead. They produced
296:: large numbers of torpedo boats could overwhelm a battleship's defences and sink it, or distract the battleship and make it vulnerable to opposing capital ships. Torpedo boats proved devastatingly effective in the
450:(3,100 kW) from a pair of Thornycroft water-tube boilers, giving them a top speed of 27 knots. In common with subsequent early Thornycroft boats, they had sloping sterns and double rudders.
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Six ships to the specifications circulated by the
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four heterogeneous classes, labelled "A", "B", "C" and "D" classes.
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Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979).
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in 1866, combined with the introduction of small fast
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1895 class of torpedo boat destroyers of the Royal Navy
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These boats all featured a turtleback (i.e. rounded)
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592:Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal, eds. (1985).
594:Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921
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979:List of destroyer classes of the Royal Navy
754:List of destroyer classes of the Royal Navy
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272:The invention of the self-propelled
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596:. London: Conway Maritime Press.
515:. London: Conway Maritime Press.
354:John I. Thornycroft & Company
59:John I. Thornycroft & Company
150:260 long tons (264 t) light
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1010:Ship classes of the Royal Navy
1000:Daring-class destroyers (1893)
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558:. Shepperton, UK: Ian Allan.
494:"HMS Decoy of the Royal Navy"
190:4,200 hp (3,132 kW)
634:. London: Putnam & Co.
615:. London: Caxton Editions.
220:(50 km/h; 31 mph)
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556:British Warships 1914–1919
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163:185 ft (56 m)
130:General characteristics
630:Manning, T. D. (1961).
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174:19 ft (5.8 m)
469:Lyon (1996), pp.40-41.
298:1891 Chilean Civil War
203:2 × water-tube boilers
182:7 ft (2.1 m)
139:Torpedo boat destroyer
632:The British Destroyer
611:Lyon, David (2001) .
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327:small-calibre guns.
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292:posed a threat to
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