Glossary Term Torpedo Boat Destroyer

Summary

The failure of the torpedo gunboats or torpedo boat catchers to fulfil their intended role led to the development of the torpedo boat destroyer. Longer than the longest torpedo boat but shorter than contemporary torpedo gunboats or torpedo boat chasers the torpedo boat destroyer's speed, seaworthiness, handiness and manoeuvring power combined with its armament of torpedoes and quick firing guns made it the ideal counter for the torpedo boat.

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Book Sections

  • Brown, W. D. S., ''The propelling machinery of a torpedo-destroyer' (Student's paper no 447)', in Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers; with other selected and abstracted papers. Part II, vol. 141, 1899, pp. 318-332. Details

Journal Articles

  • 'Torpedo boat destroyers for the United States Navy', The Engineer, vol. 86, 21 October 1808, pp. 390-392. Details
  • 'The Torpedo Vessel Destroyer', The Engineer, vol. 46, 30 August 1878, p. 144. Details
  • 'Torpedo boat catchers and destroyers', The Engineer, vol. 60, 27 November 1885, pp. 419-420. Details
  • 'Torpedo boat destroyers', The Engineer, vol. 76, 27 October 1893, p. 415. Details
  • 'The new torpedo boat destroyer Havock', The Engineer, vol. 76, 8 December 1893, pp. 524-525. Details
  • 'Torpedo boat destroyers', The Engineer, Editorial, vol. 76, 15 December 1893, pp. 575-576. Details
  • 'A new torpedo boat destroyer', The Engineer, vol. 77, 2 February 1894, p. 104. Details
  • 'The torpedo destroyer Hornet', The Engineer, vol. 77, 15 June 1894, pp. 516-517. Details
  • 'The torpedo destroyers Ferret and Lynx', The Engineer, vol. 78, 7 September 1894, p. 218. Details
  • 'Admiralty orders for torpedo boat destroyers', The Engineer, vol. 79, 3 May 1895, p. 391. Details
  • 'Speed trials of the torpedo boat destroyer Starfish', The Engineer, vol. 80, 11 October 1895, p. 365. Details
  • 'The Russian Sokol', The Engineer, vol. 80, 13 September 1895, p. 263. Details
  • 'Trial trip of the Russian torpedo boat destroyer Sokol', The Engineer, vol. 80, 30 August 1895, p. 209. Details
  • 'The cost of torpedo boat destroyers', The Engineer, vol. 79, 10 May 1895, p. 413. Details
  • 'Torpedo-boat destroyers', Engineering, vol. 59, 5 April 1895, p. 437. Details
  • 'Torpedo-boat destroyers', Engineering, vol. 59, 24 May 1895, pp. 671-672. Details
  • 'Torpedo boat destroyers', The Engineer, vol. 79, 24 May 1895, p. 440. Details
  • 'Armoured torpedo destroyers', The Engineer, vol. 82, 16 October 1896, p. 391. Details
  • 'The torpedo-boat destroyer Porcupine', The Engineer, vol. 81, 7 February 1896, p. 134. Details
  • 'Torpedo destroyers', The Engineer, vol. 81, 7 February 1896, p. 136. Details
  • 'Armoured torpedo boat destroyers for the Argentine Government', The Engineer, vol. 81, 22 May 1896, p. 513. Details
  • 'The torpedo boat destroyer Desperate', The Engineer, vol. 82, 2 October 1896, p. 347. Details
  • 'Armoured torpedo boat destroyers', The Engineer, vol. 82, 27 November 1896, p. 535. Details
  • 'Boilers of torpedo boat destroyers', The Engineer, vol. 81, 19 June 1896, p. 616. Details
  • 'The Santa Fe torpedo boat destroyer', The Engineer, vol. 82, 31 July 1896, pp. 111-112. Details
  • 'Accident to the Corrientes, torpedo boat destroyer', The Engineer, vol. 83, 19 March 1897, p. 301. Details
  • 'The utility of torpedo boat destroyers', The Engineer, vol. 83, 26 March 1897, p. 312. Details
  • 'HM torpedo destroyers Thrasher and Lynx', The Engineer, vol. 84, 1 October 1897, p. 334. Details
  • 'The torpedo destroyer Dasher', The Engineer, vol. 85, 14 January 1898, p. 28. Details
  • 'The Japanese destroyer, Ikadsuchi', The Engineer, vol. 86, 23 December 1898, p. 612. Details
  • 'The Japanese Destroyer, Ikadsuchi', The Engineer, vol. 86, 23 December 1898, p. 612. Details
  • 'Torpedo boat destroyers for sea service', The Engineer, vol. 87, 31 March 1899, pp. 309-310. Details
  • 'Japanese torpedo boat destroyer', The Engineer, vol. 88, 8 September 1899, p. 238. Details
  • 'HM torpedo destroyer Mermaid', The Engineer, vol. 87, 12 May 1899, p. 464. Details
  • 'Imperial Japanese torpedo boat destroyer Sazanami', The Engineer, vol. 88, 28 July 1899, p. 88. Details
  • 'Torpedo boat destroyers', The Engineer, vol. 89, 146, p. 542. Details
  • 'HM Torpedo Boat Destroyer Viper', The Engineer, vol. 90, 202, p. 68. Details
  • Watts, P., 'Speed trials of HM Torpedo-Boat Destroyer "Cossack" at Skelmorlie and the Maplin Sands', Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects, vol. 51, 38434, pp. 176-178. Details

Letters Patents

  • Humphrey, A. F., Mine or submarine-boat destroyer, United States Patent Office, 1403. Details

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