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THE torpedo-bout destroyer is so optimistle
DAWSON, R.N. (Retd.)
valve gear for going make a certain landfall and report
much in the publle eye nowadays nstern, and the more modern "hun herself. for the part she plays on patrol and dred" class to the "coastal torpedo notably off the coast of Spain that boats" ("Olly-Wads") of the first de- the British citizen may well wonderende of the 20th century.
white
were
If the ward-room of a 30-knotter in a seaway, its three bunks built up against the ship's side, a glowing steve, and closed hatches, resembled an Eskimo igloo with an earthquake in progress, her captain's cabin-a closet right aft over the screws-wus
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even less desirable as a residence.
ance.
in
the des-
VESSEL-OF-ALL-WORK
AN ATTRACTIVE LIFE Navigating in and out of harbours Just where the destroyer's duties and This class of boat, originally built seldom, it ever, used by men-of-war; utility begin and end.
He probably does not realise that and named as small destroyers for picking their way through little use in the shallow waters of the Ger-known channels, and going alongside the emergence of the destroyer-toman coast, and the first to be fitted plors and jetties like Isle of Wight use the more general term-as an in-with turbines and oil-fuel as a class, steamers the large number of tor- dividual unit is a comparatively re- eventually renamed as number pedo-craft in commission before the ed torpedo-boats. Thirty-six in all wor formed the most practical school cent event.
The anti-submarine campaign of and of about 230 tons displacement, of seamanship that it was possible to the Great War saw, perhaps, the first they were the peak period of the imagine for subsequent "war-lime employment of the single destroyer, torpede-boat--and her end as a type. commanding officers. as escort to conveys, and on patroi
For, as the Admiralty realised the for the discovery and attempted de-growing menace of the seagoing
then, straction of submarines. Until torpedo craft, the torpedo-bont de except for a few tenders to educa-stroyer was born. tional establishments at home, and Old-fashioned officers referred to for close patrois of defended bases, them as "Catchers." and, as late as the destroyer worked mainly in com-
with the 1907, I heard Lord Charles Beresford with her fellows, pany flotilla a
unit.
Her main func-ive an order to his flag-lieutenant As the captain himself, however, was tion was beating off attacks upon the to "Let the catchers have a go," when seidom or never in it while at sea, battle fleet by enemy flotillas, and he wished the signal for a destroyer this was perhaps of minor import-
attack to be made.
early delivering similar assaults herself.
excelled more in The ship's company of an As succeeding years saw the supply
The destroyer of cruisers rapidly diminishing, the guns than torpedoes, since her origine destroyer earned every penny of their al purpose was the destruction of "hard-lying" money at sea, nor was lone duties of the destrayer Increased.
torpedo-boats. As I have said, the life a bed of roses in harbour, for
their mess
mess-decks were uncomfortably Havock had only one tube, whereas AN EARLY HAVOCK Certain far-away stations had de-a good, healthy torpedo-boat car-cramped and crowded.
They were all picked men, to nil stroyers of their
purposes. own in pre-war ried three at least. days. The Quail and the Rocket, for Eventually, as the torpedo-boat dis-intents and example, lived for many years on the appeared before the advance of the troyer's ship's company in those days, North American and West Indian destroyer, the torpedo armament of and, despite the discomforts, the ex- Stations, and proved to be rather the new
craft once more grew incitements of the life and comparative took their freedom from the tout discipline of white elephants for the high com- size. Destroyers thus mand In those waters. 11.M.S. place us weapons for torpedo attacks the big ship made service in them
popular, even much sought after. Havack, built in 1893, was the first against heavy ships torpedo-bout destroyer. I served in
After the 26-knot Havock came the a flotilla of which this marine reli
relic 27 and 30 knotters, with torpedo increasing, until the
This is still the case to-day, though was the flagship, nearly 20 years armament
no longer Inter. By then ber matronly frames "River Class," which arrived shortly hard-lying money" is
These ships, de forthcoming, and the modern des- were not considered capable of carry- before the war.
troyer displacing as much as 1,370 ing more than one gun of her origin- signed to carry their armament on al armement of one 12-pounder and steadier platform, and to stand up to tons (soon to be incrtased to 1,850) la forecasties and almost as large as the light cruisers three 3/0-pounder guns. One tor-weather, had high
round. was fixed in her stem. higher freeboard all pedo tube
They of the early days of the century, and to have her
live more under big- She was 180ft long, und her tonnage were the first destroyers
skin separate cabins for officers.
ship was 275.
Apart from her lack of any notice- The destroyer officer of the present able urmament beyond the aged 12-day, however, would not regard them with the increased size, and no hard- pounder and a Maxim or two she as very pleasant craft in a sea-way, ship can be said to exist for those still presented a very martial appear despite the fact that they had proper ance as she shovelled the seas away bridges from which to handle them. with her ram-bow. Her speed un- For the low-forecastled 27 and 30- der forced draught had been 20 knots knotters he would have had nothing -but she was but a shadow of her good to say. A four-hour watch in former self in this respect when I one of them, the officer of the watch knew her.
and his satellites perched precariously on a small platform built in the wake at the foremost gun, almost on a level with the sea itself and swept con-
and water, experience which thoroughly cared the extra "hard-lying money" con- sidered the due of all who then served They first appeared as units of the in destroyers. It was after the war British Navy in the early eighties, that increasing comforts rendered
money an
an easy and, in 1889, H.M.S. Vuican was con- the "hard-lying"
for the economists, and des- structed as a sea-going torpedo-bont target service lost its privilege.
The Hague. depot. She carried six 00ft torpedo- tro
troyer
Navigational accuracy was dimeult boals for holsting out as required.
Increased air forces In the Dutch An apparatus icnown as "dropping, indeed in these earlier craft since, in East Indies, and the fact that 60,000 gear" was employed for firing the any sort of weather, the chari table troops are stationed in Java, would torpedoes.
was mostly submerged and charts be-
make it very dangerous for any By the end of the 19th century. came wet rags. Destroyer officers, foreign Power seeking to invade these torpedo-bonts existed in great num-however, found their way about the posses
Pons, declared the Netherlands bers, of all shapes and sizes. King seas with remarkable perspicaclty
Minister, M. Welter, in the George V, commanded T B 78 dur-despite these drawbacks; they seemed
eLower Chamber, In of some kind of defence. ing manoeuvres ns a lleutenant. to
possessed of From the primitive No. 1, which extra sense of direction.
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Torpedo-boats were, of course, of much earlier origin, Primitive types were afloat at the time of the Ameri- can Civil War and during the Franco-stantly by spray Chinese hostiles.
OLD TORPEDO BOATS
was an
Mtion
is now compatible
who man the craft. Service in them, however, offers even greater variety nowadays than in the past.
Whatever may be the opinions of differing schools of thought ns to the value of the battleship In modern naval warfare, there can be no doubts as to the value of His Majesty's tor- pedo-boat destroyer, In this year of grace, 13 the vessel-of-all-work among our Naval forces.
"Only One
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He added that the Air Force was
point in the Archipelago.
er, and of which A famous Admiral, when COM- was steered by a tiller, and of Wain- Imanding one of the pre-war flotillos able to reach in a very short time any
it used to be said that it was so
The Communist leader, M. Wyn-
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the
to
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Tly if he was displeased
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with no with them)
other orders type
than that they were not to sight fond the Dutch Indies only one enemy- with a low forecastle and ram-
Japan." bow, both of which were usually for so many days a most practical under water-Bombay Ducks" form of deep-sea navigational instruc- (those stationed at first In India),tion. At the end of the period laid which used n peculiar and over-down, the ship in question had to
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