Porter Class Torpedo Boat (1896)

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Two Porter class torpedo boats were completed for the U.S. Navy in 1897.

Overview of 2 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name Builder Laid Down Launched Completed Fate
Porter Herreshoff Manufacturing Company Feb, 1896 9 Sep, 1896 20 Feb, 1897 Sold 1912
Du Pont Herreshoff Manufacturing Company Feb, 1896 30 Mar, 1897 23 Sep, 1897 Sold 1920

Construction

Armament

  • four 1-pdr guns
  • three 18-in torpedo tubes, one on the centreline aft, one each abreast fore funnel

See Also

Footnotes

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Friedman, Norman (1985). U.S. Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. (on Amazon.com).
  • Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The New Navy 1883-1922. New York: Routledge.
  • Simpson, Richard V. (2001). Building the Mosquito Fleet: The U.S. Navy's First Torpedo Boats. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing.


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