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Saturday, March 19, 2005

A British torpedo boat (GB/DT/1914) at high speed

This is my first attempt at depicting a torpedo boat of the GB/DT/1914 design. This piece of photoart shows one of the vessels at high speed, as if attacking. The GB/DT/1914 design was intended to be 900 tons normal displacement, to have a top speed of 32 knots, and to carry 1-4in QF gun and 9-21 inch torpedo tubes in triple mounts, aft. The gun is forward on the flush-decked hull, just forward of the enclosed pilot house with open bridge wings. There is a single, trunked stack, reminiscent of a German WWII torpedo boat.

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