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Cricket-class destroyer

The Cricket class and following classes of coastal destroyers were a series of small torpedo boat destroyers (TBDs) intended to complement the Royal Navy's Tribal-class destroyers. The thirty-six vessels which broadly comprised this group actually consisted of several distinct classes, as each contractor built to their own designs, and even single contractor's designs evolved from year to year.

Cricket-class (TB.1 to TB.5 - J. S. White 1905–1906 programme)
}} J Samuel White's torpedo boats of the 1905–1906 shipbuilding programme were long overall and between perpendiculars, with a beam of and a draught of . Displacement was normal and deep load. The ships had turtleback forecastles and two funnels. Two oil-fuelled Yarrow water-tube boilers fed steam to three-stage Parsons steam turbines, driving three propeller shafts. The machinery was designed to give , with a speed of specified. Armament consisted of two 12-pounder (76-mm) 12 cwt guns, and three 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes (in three single mounts). The ships had a crew of 39. == Gadfly-class (TB.6 to TB.10 - Thornycroft boats - 1905–1906 programme) ==
Gadfly-class (TB.6 to TB.10 - Thornycroft boats - 1905–1906 programme)
}} Thornycroft's torpedo boats under the 1905–1906 programme were long overall and between perpendiculars, with a beam of and a draught of . Displacement was normal and deep load. As for the White-built boats, they had turtleback forecastles and two funnels. The machinery was similar, but was rated at , with a speed of specified. The ship's armament and crew was as the White-designed ships. == Mayfly Class (TB.11 to TB.12) ==
Mayfly Class (TB.11 to TB.12)
}} == TB.13 Class (TB.13 to TB.16) ==
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