HMS TB 13 (1907)

The Cricket-class was intended as a smaller and cheaper supplement to the large, fast, but expensive Tribal-class destroyer, particularly in coastal waters such as the English Channel.{{harvnb|Friedman|2009|pp=110–111}}{{Harvnb|Brown|2003|p=195}} Twelve ships were ordered under the 1905–1906 shipbuilding programme, with 12 more ordered in November 1906 under the 1906–1907 programme. The 1906–1907 orders were distributed with four ships being built by J. Samuel White, two by Denny, two by Thornycroft, two by Hawthorn Leslie and one each by Palmers and Yarrow.

White's ships were {{convert|184|ft|3|in|m}} long with a beam of {{convert|18|ft|0|in|m}} and a draught of {{convert|6|ft|9|in|m}}. Displacement was {{convert|270|LT|t}}.{{Harvnb|Moore|1990|p=79}} The ships had turtleback{{#tag:ref|A fore deck with exaggerated camber designed to throw off sea water at high speeds.{{harvnb|Gardiner|Lambert|1992|p=188}}|group=lower-alpha}} forecastles and two funnels. Two oil-fuelled Yarrow water-tube boilers fed steam to three-stage Parsons steam turbines, driving three propeller shafts.{{Harvnb|Gardiner|Gray|1985|pp=72–73}} The machinery was rated at {{convert|4000|shp|kW}}, giving a speed of {{convert|26|kn|mph km/h}}.

Armament consisted of two 12-pounder (76-mm) 12 cwt guns{{#tag:ref|12 cwt refers to the weight of the gun in hundredweights|group=lower-alpha}}, and three 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes (in three single mounts). The ships had a crew of 35.

The first of White's 1906–1907 ships, TB 13 was laid down at White's Cowes shipyard on 14 March 1907, was launched on 10 July 1907 and completed in May 1908.{{Harvnb|Friedman|2009|p=305}}

TB 13 commissioned into the Devonport Flotilla of the Home Fleet on 17 June 1909.{{cite magazine|title=Naval Matters—Past and Prospective: Devonport Dockyard|magazine=The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect|date=July 1909|volume=31|page=462}}

In July–August 1909, TB 13 took part in the Naval Manoeuvres, during which she collided with the torpedo-boat {{HMS|TB 19|1907|2}}. TB 13 was badly holed, with her engine rooms and stokeholds flooded, and was brought into Portsmouth by the torpedo boat {{HMS|TB 20|1908|2}} and the torpedo-gunboat {{HMS|Niger|1892|2}}.{{cite magazine|title=Naval Matters—Past and Prospective: Portsmouth Dockyard|magazine=The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect|date=September 1909|volume=32|page=56}}

In 1912, four Patrol Flotillas were formed with torpedo boats and older destroyers, with the duties of preventing enemy minelaying or torpedo attacks on the east coast of Britain.{{Harvnb|Manning|1961|p=25}}{{Harvnb| Naval Staff Monograph No. 7|1921|pp=73–77}} In March 1913, TB 13 was a member of the Seventh Flotilla, based at Devonport,{{cite magazine|title=Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad: Patrol Flotillas|magazine=The Navy List|date=March 1913|page=269d|url=http://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/pageturner.cfm?id=94246554&mode=fullsize}} but by July 1914 she had moved to the Eighth Flotilla, based at Chatham.{{cite magazine|title=Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad: Patrol Flotillas|magazine=The Navy List|date=August 1914|page=269c|url=https://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/archive/91884214}}

In November 1914, TB 13 was listed as part of the Eighth Patrol Flotilla, based on the Tyne.{{cite web|title=Ships of the Royal Navy — Location/Action Data 1914–1918: Admiralty "Pink Lists", 1 November 1914|work=World War 1 at Sea|publisher=naval-history.net|date=24 March 2015|url=http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishShips-Locations2PL1411.htm|access-date=6 July 2018}}

TB 13 was lost in a collision in the North Sea on 26 January 1916.{{Harvnb|Dittmar|Colledge|1972|p=81}}

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