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Two ships of the British Royal Navy were named HMS TB 4.
- HMS TB 4 (1879) - a first-class, Lightning-type, torpedo boat, built by John I. Thornycroft & Company and launched in 1879. Sold for commercial use in 1905 and renamed Rocket. [1][2] Scrapped 1920.[3]
- HMS TB 4 (1906) - a Cricket-class destroyer built by J. Samuel White with the name Sandfly and launched on 30 October 1906.[4][5] Reclassified as a torpedo boat and renamed TB 4 in December 1906.[6] Ran aground on the way to be scrapped on 11 January 1921 and broken up in situ.[4][5]
Citations
[edit]- ↑ Lyon & Winfield 2004, p. 308.
- ↑ Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 101.
- ↑ "Screw Steamer TORPEDO BOAT No.4 built by J. I. Thornycroft & Co. Ltd. in 1879 for The Admiralty - Royal Navy, Naval". Shipping and Shipbuilding. Retrieved 13 February 2026.
- 1 2 Dittmar & Colledge 1972, p. 81.
- 1 2 Friedman 2009, p. 305.
- ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times. No. 38214. 27 December 1906. p. 4.
References
[edit]- Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.
- 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.
- Lyon, David; Winfield, Rif (2004). The Sail & Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 1-86176-032-9.
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