HMS Lightning (1877)

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HMS Lightning was a torpedo boat, built by John Thornycroft for the Royal Navy. She was the first seagoing vessel to be armed with self-propelled Whitehead torpedoes. She was later known as TB-1. She entered service in 1876 and was broken up 1896.

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