An item dated London the 12th reported that in the afternoon of the 11th at Chatham the torpedo boat 1st class No. 64 (1) and the cruiser 2nd class Medea (2) collided. Both ships were heavily damaged, of the first the bow and of the latter one side.
Notes
1. With a displacement of 75 tons and as dimensions 125’x 13’, an armament consisting of 2-3pd guns and 5 torpedo tubes and built by Yarrow in 1886. Finally wrecked in the Aegean on 21 March 1915. TB.64 and after 1906 TB.064.
2. Cruiser 2nd Medea-class of 2.800 tons and as dimensions 265’ (between perpendiculars) x 41’ x 16’6”and an armament of 6-6” guns, 9-6pd guns, 1-3pd gun, 3 machineguns, 2 torpedo tubes and 1 torpedo gun, laid down at the Chatham dockyard on 25 April 1887, launched on 9 June 1888, completed a year later and sold on 2 April 1914. Crew numbered 218 men.
Notes
1. With a displacement of 75 tons and as dimensions 125’x 13’, an armament consisting of 2-3pd guns and 5 torpedo tubes and built by Yarrow in 1886. Finally wrecked in the Aegean on 21 March 1915. TB.64 and after 1906 TB.064.
2. Cruiser 2nd Medea-class of 2.800 tons and as dimensions 265’ (between perpendiculars) x 41’ x 16’6”and an armament of 6-6” guns, 9-6pd guns, 1-3pd gun, 3 machineguns, 2 torpedo tubes and 1 torpedo gun, laid down at the Chatham dockyard on 25 April 1887, launched on 9 June 1888, completed a year later and sold on 2 April 1914. Crew numbered 218 men.
