HM Torpedo Boat 2

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Torpedo Boat 2, 1906
Type: Torpedo Boat ; former Coastal Destroyer ; Armament 2 - 12 pdr., 3 - 18 inch tubes.
Launched : 11 Mar 1906 ; Displacement: 261 tons
Propulsion: Complement: 35
Machinery notes: H.P. 3600 = 26 kts Parsons turbine. Oil fuel : 44 / 37 tons. ; Speed ; 26 knots ;
Notes:

All "oily wad" T.B. 1 - 36 now have pole mainmast and openings under fore bridge screened in.

5 White boats : 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 (1906). 261 tons.

Were originally named in order given Spider, Sandfly, Firefly Dragonfly. Cricket.

To distinguish.- Tubes before and abaft first funnel. No tube before after 13 pdr. position. Funnels wide apart.

Aug 1914 A part of 7th Flotilla at Devonport and tender to Leander.