Mackenzie Class Torpedo Boat (1898): Difference between revisions

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Two Mackenzie class torpedo boats were completed for the U.S. Navy in 1898 and 1899.

Overview of 2 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Completed	Fate
Mackenzie	Charles Hillman	15 Apr, 1897	19 Feb, 1898	1 May, 1899	Expended 1916
McKee	Columbian Iron Works	11 Sep, 1897	5 Mar, 1898	16 May, 1898	Expended 1912

These boats were very small, being about one third the displacement of the Davis class boats ordered at the same time.

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).

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