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'''HMS ''TB 11''''' (originally named '''HMS ''Mayfly''''') was a [[Cricket-class destroyer|''Cricket''-class]] coastal destroyer or [[torpedo-boat]] of the British [[Royal Navy]]. ''TB 11'' was built by the shipbuilder Yarrow from 1905 to 1907. She was used for local patrol duties in the [[First World War]] and was sunk by a German mine in the [[North Sea]] on 7 March 1916.

==Design==
The ''Cricket''-class was intended as a smaller and cheaper supplement to the large, fast but expensive [[Tribal-class destroyer (1905)|''Tribal''-class]], particularly in coastal waters such as the [[English Channel]].<ref name="fried p110-1">{{harvnb|Friedman|2009|pp=110–111}}</ref><ref name="brown p195">{{Harvnb|Brown|2003|p=195}}</ref> An initial order for twelve ships was placed by the [[British Admiralty|Admiralty]] in May 1905 as part of the 1905–1906 shipbuilding programme, with five ships each ordered from [[Thornycroft]] and [[J. Samuel White]] and two from Yarrow.<ref name="fried p110-1"/>

Yarrow's ships (the different shipbuilders built to their own design, although standardised machinery and armament was fitted) were {{convert|175|ft|9|in|m}} [[length overall|long overall]] and {{convert|172|ft|0|in|m|2}} [[length between perpendiculars|between perpendiculars]], with a [[Beam (nautical)|beam]] of {{convert|18|ft|0|in|2}} and a [[Draft (ship)|draught]] of {{convert|5|ft|8|in|}}.<ref name="fried p110, 294">{{Harvnb|Friedman|2009|pp=110, 294}}</ref> The ships had turtleback{{#tag:ref|A fore deck with exaggerated camber designed to throw off sea water at high speeds.<ref>{{harvnb|Gardiner|Lambert|1992|p=188}}</ref>|group=lower-alpha}} [[forecastle]]s and two funnels. Two oil-fuelled Yarrow [[water-tube boiler]]s fed steam to three-stage Parsons [[steam turbine]]s, driving three propeller shafts.<ref name="conways06 p72-3">{{Harvnb|Gardiner|Gray|1985|pp=72–73}}</ref><ref name="brown p195"/> The machinery was designed to give {{convert|4000|shp|kW}}, with a speed of {{convert|26|kn|mph km/h}} specified.<ref name="fried p110, 294"/>

Armament consisted of two 12-pounder (76-mm) 12 cwt guns{{#tag:ref|12 cwt refers to the weight of the gun in [[hundredweight]]s|group=lower-alpha}}, and three 18-inch (450&nbsp;mm) torpedo tubes (in three single mounts).<ref name="conways06 p72-3"/><ref name="fried p110-1"/> The ships had a crew of 39.<ref name="fried p294">{{Harvnb|Friedman|2009|p=294}}</ref>

==Service==
The first of Yarrow's two torpedo-boats of the 1905–1906 programme was [[keel laying|laid down]] as HMS ''Mayfly'' at their [[Poplar, London]] shipyard on 23 November 1905.<ref name="fried p305">{{Harvnb|Friedman|2009|p=305}}</ref>  In 1906, the ships of the class, including ''Mayfly'', were redesignated as torpedo-boats, losing their names in the process, with ''Mayfly'' becoming ''TB 11''.<ref name="conways06 p72-3"/> She was launched on 29 January 1907, and reached a speed of {{convert|27.16|kn|mph km/h}} during [[sea trials]]. She was completed in July 1907.<ref name="fried p294,05">{{Harvnb|Friedman|2009|pp=294, 305}}</ref>

In August 1910, ''TB 11'' collided with the sea wall at the eastern entrance to [[Port of Dover|Dover harbour]] when carrying out a practice night torpedo attack, damaging her [[Stem (ship)|stem]]. She was taken into [[Sheerness dockyard]] for repair on 3 August.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Naval Matters—Past and Prospective: Sheerness Dockyard|magazine=The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect|date=September 1910 |volume=XXXIII|pages=52–53}}</ref> She was refitted at Sheerness in 1911.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Naval Matters—Past and Prospective: Sheerness Dockyard|magazine=The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect|date=August 1911 |volume=XXXIV|page=15}}</ref>

In March 1913, ''TB 11'' was based at [[Chatham Dockyard|Chatham]], in commission, but with a nucleus crew,<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad: Torpedo Craft and Submarine Flotillas at Home Ports |magazine=The Navy List|date=March 1913|page=270b|url=https://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/archive/94246590 |access-date=13 September 2020|via=National Library of Scotland}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|Ships with nucleus crews were permanently manned with two-fifths of the ships' normal complement, consisting of key officers and men (including engineering and gunnery specialists), who would become well acquainted with their ships. The ships could be quickly mobilised by regular Navy personnel drawn from shore barracks and training establishments. This mobilisation was frequently practiced.<ref>{{Harvnb|Massie|2007|p=465}}</ref>|group=lower-alpha}} and remained at Chatham in July 1914.<ref>{{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/91884274 |access-date=13 September 2020 |via=National Library of Scotland}}</ref>

The Royal Navy mobilised its reserve forces on the eve of the outbreak of the [[First World War]] in August 1914,<ref>{{harvnb|Corbett|1920|pp=28–29}}</ref> and in November 1914, ''TB 11'' was listed as part of the Local Defence Flotilla for [[The Nore]],<ref>{{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=13 September 2020}}</ref> which had the duty of defending the [[Thames Estuary]].<ref>{{harvnb|Corbett|1920|p=16}}</ref> The flotilla had a strength of twelve old destroyers and 20 torpedo boats, including twelve ex-''Cricket''-class vessels.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Supplement to the Monthly Navy List Showing Organisation of the Fleet, Flag Officers' Commands, &c.: I.—Home and Atlantic Waters: Local Defence Flotillas |magazine=The Navy List |date=January 1915 |page=13 |url= https://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/archive/91953462 |access-date=13 September 2020 |via=National Library of Scotland}}</ref>

''TB 11'' remained part of the Nore Local Defence Flotilla in March 1916.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Supplement to the Monthly Navy List Showing Organisation of the Fleet, Flag Officers' Commands, &c.: VI.—Local Defence Flotillas |magazine=The Navy List|date=March 1916 |page=17 |url= https://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/archive/92030302 |access-date=13 September 2020 |via=National Library of Scotland}}</ref> She was sunk by a mine off Longsand Head on the east coast of Britain on 7 March 1916. 23 of her crew was killed. The destroyer {{HMS|Coquette|1897|2}} was lost shortly before ''TB 11'' was sunk in the same minefield, which had been laid by the German submarine [[SM UC-10|''UC-10'']] on 6 March.<ref>{{Harvnb|Kemp|1999|p=31}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Dittmar|Colledge|1972|pp=58, 81}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Naval Staff Monograph No. 31|1926|p=260}}</ref>

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==References==

*{{cite book|last=Brown|first=D. K.|title= Warrior to Dreadnought: Warship Development 1860–1905|year=2003|publisher=Chatham Publishing|location=London|isbn=1-84067-5292}}]
*{{cite book|last=Corbett|first=Julian S.|title=Naval Operations: Volume I, To the Battle of the Falklands December 1914 |url=https://archive.org/details/navaloperations01corb |series=History of the Great War |year=1920 |publisher=Longmans, Green and Co. |location=London}}
*{{cite book|last1=Dittmar|first1=F. J.|last2=Colledge|first2=J. J.|title=British Warships 1914–1919|year=1972|publisher=Ian Allan|location=Shepperton, UK|isbn=0-7110-0380-7}}
*{{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Norman|title=British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War|year=2009|publisher=Seaforth Publishing|location=Barnsley, UK|isbn=978-1-84832-049-9}}
*{{cite book|editor1-last=Gardiner|editor1-first=Robert|editor2-last=Gray|editor2-first=Randal|title=Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921|year=1985|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=London|isbn=0-85177-245-5}}
*{{cite book|editor1-last=Gardiner|editor1-first=Robert|editor2-last=Lambert|editor2-first=Andrew |title=Steam, Steel & Shellfire: The Steam Warship 1815–1905|series=Conway's History of the Ship|year=1992|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=London|isbn=0-85177-564-0}}
*{{cite book|last=Kemp|first=Paul|title=The Admiralty Regrets: British Warship Losses of the 20th Century|year=1999|publisher=Sutton Publishing|location=Stroud, UK|isbn=0-7509-1567-6}}
*{{cite book |last=Massie |first=Robert K. |author-link=Robert K. Massie |title=Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War |year=2007 |location=London |publisher=Vintage Books |isbn=978-0-099-52402-1}}
*{{cite book|title= Monograph No. 31: Home Waters Part VI: From October 1915 to May 1916|series=Naval Staff Monographs (Historical)|volume= XV|year=1926|publisher=Naval Staff, Training and Staff Duties Division|url=http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/Naval-Staff-Monographs-Vol.XV_opt.pdf |ref={{harvid|Naval Staff Monograph No. 31|1926}} }}

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