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TB81 as completed  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
TB81 (ex-Swift), 1906- TB081			White, Cowes	1884	1885	1885	sold 10.1921

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	137
Displacement full, t
Length, m	46.9 oa 45.72 pp
Breadth, m	5.34
Draught, m	2.90
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 2-cyl VC, 1 locomotive boiler
Power, h. p.	1300
Max speed, kts	23.0
Fuel, t	coal 35
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	4 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 1 - 356 TT (bow), 2 x 1 - 356 TT
Complement	25

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Project history

In 1888 White began building as a private venture, with an eye to Admiralty purchase, a larger version of their 'turnabout' boat equipped with the cut-up stern, a ram bow with a spur ram, and referred to her as a 'torpedo boat destroyer'. In 1885 the Admiralty was glad to buy this formidable vessel just before she ran her first trials. She was purchased and named TB81 in 1888.

Modernizations

1905: was reboilered with 2 water-tube boilers

1916: + 2 DCR

Naval service

After war service as a patrol craft she was broken up in 1921.