Keywords: HMTb 98 - Engineering 1885-07-10.png en The torpedo boat No 98 for the Royal Navy was a special construction built by Thornycroft to test the Ruthven hydraulic propulsion It was not a succes being slower and much more noisy than the regular second class torpedo boats of the same size File Engineering 40 July-Dec 1885 - Part 1 djvu Engineering July 10 1885 page 26 Unknown illustrator of the time 1885 Torpedo boats of the United Kingdom Ships built at John I Thornycroft Company Chiswick PD-old-70-1923 |