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TORPEDO SHIPS

FOOTE torpedo boats (1897-1898)

Foote 1897

No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
TB3, 8.1918- CTB1 Foote, 8.1918- unnamed 78 Columbian Iron Wks, Baltimore 5/1896 1.10.1896 8/1897 sold 7.1920
TB4, 8.1918- CTB2 Rodgers, 8.1918- unnamed 79 Columbian Iron Wks, Baltimore 5/1896 10.11.1896 4/1898 stricken 10.1919
TB5 Winslow 80 Columbian Iron Wks, Baltimore 5/1896 6.1.1897 12/1897 stricken 7.1910
  

Displacement normal, t

142

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

48.8

Breadth, m

4.91

Draught, m

1.52 mean

No of shafts

2

Machinery

TB3: 2 VTE, 2 Thornycroft boilers

TB4, 5: 2 VTE, 2 Mosher boilers

Power, h. p.

2000

Max speed, kts

25

Fuel, t

coal 44

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

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

Complement

20

Project history: Authorised under the Act of 26.7.1894. Two funnels far apart. Three single TT, to port and starboard of fore funnel and far aft.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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