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UNITED STATES NAVY (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)

TORPEDO SHIPS

DAVIS torpedo boats (1899)

Fox 1899

No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
TB12 Davis   Wolff & Zwicker, Portland 3/1897 4.6.1898 5/1899 sold 4.1920
TB13 Fox   Wolff & Zwicker, Portland 3/1897 4.7.1898 7/1899 sold 10.1916
  

Displacement normal, t

155

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

45.1

Breadth, m

4.68

Draught, m

1.78 mean

No of shafts

2

Machinery

VTE, 2 Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

1750

Max speed, kts

23

Fuel, t

coal 40

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

3 x 1 - 37/40 Driggs-Schroeder heavy Mk I, 3 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

24

Project history: Authorised under the Act of 10.6.1896. Two funnels far apart, three single TT to port and starboard, and far aft.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Davis finally decommissioned 28.3.1913, but not sold till 1920.

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