Talbot Class Torpedo Boat (1897)

Two Talbot class torpedo boats were completed for the U.S. Navy in April, 1898.

Overview of 2 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
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.

Armament

• one 1-pdr gun
• two 18-in torpedo tubes on centreline

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.