by Pieter » Mon Mar 25, 2013 9:15 am
The Lyon book covers all British TBDs built between 1891 and 1901. The book contains drawings and as-fitted drawings for most of them. At the time TBD's were built to individual designs by the shipyards that tendered on a relatively open admiralty specification in order to foster innovation and competition (and failed to do so off course). After building the first TBDs Havock and Hornet Yarrow dropped out of these competitions and concentrated on building for export. The JB models Huszar represent one of those export destroyers. Most destroyers built on those admiralty tenders were very similar to the Yarrow design except those built by Yarrow's great rival Thornycroft. HMS Fame was a Thornycroft design. This means a somewhat broader hull with a cruiser stern, longer and more streamlined foc'sle, two broad funnels instead of 4 and a balanced rudder. I think Peppe's drawings of Foam show the differences quite well so if your planning to do only one you may just want to use these drawings. The Lyon book may lead to too many unfinished projects...
One thing about the A, B , C, D classification, this was applied 10 to 15 years after the ships were build and does not reflect any design differences other than the number of funnels. TBD's were originally classified by their theoretical maximum speed and their builder. So HMS Fame was seen as a Thornycroft 30 knotter and and Havock a Yarrow 24 knotter.
The Lyon book covers all British TBDs built between 1891 and 1901. The book contains drawings and as-fitted drawings for most of them. At the time TBD's were built to individual designs by the shipyards that tendered on a relatively open admiralty specification in order to foster innovation and competition (and failed to do so off course). After building the first TBDs Havock and Hornet Yarrow dropped out of these competitions and concentrated on building for export. The JB models Huszar represent one of those export destroyers. Most destroyers built on those admiralty tenders were very similar to the Yarrow design except those built by Yarrow's great rival Thornycroft. HMS Fame was a Thornycroft design. This means a somewhat broader hull with a cruiser stern, longer and more streamlined foc'sle, two broad funnels instead of 4 and a balanced rudder. I think Peppe's drawings of Foam show the differences quite well so if your planning to do only one you may just want to use these drawings. The Lyon book may lead to too many unfinished projects...
One thing about the A, B , C, D classification, this was applied 10 to 15 years after the ships were build and does not reflect any design differences other than the number of funnels. TBD's were originally classified by their theoretical maximum speed and their builder. So HMS Fame was seen as a Thornycroft 30 knotter and and Havock a Yarrow 24 knotter.