Talbot Class Torpedo Boat (1897)
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Two Talbot class torpedo boats were completed for the U.S. Navy in April, 1898.
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| Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
| Talbot | Herreshoff Manufacturing Company | 8 Apr, 1897 | 14 Nov, 1897 | 4 Apr, 1898 | Sold 1920 |
| Gwin | Herreshoff Manufacturing Company | 14 Apr, 1897 | 15 Nov, 1897 | 4 Apr, 1898 | Sold 1925 |
Construction
Designed in-house by Herreshoff, these two boats were the smallest steam torpedo boats built for the U.S. Navy (excluding the Manley, which was never commissioned), being about one third the displacement of the Davis class boats ordered at the same time.[1]
Armament
- one 1-pdr gun
- two 18-in torpedo tubes on centreline
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 165.
Bibliography
- Bauer, K. Jack and Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants. New York: Greenwood Press.
- 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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