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GOLDSBOROUGH large torpedo boat - destroyer (1908)

Goldsborough 1908

No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
TB20, 8.1918- CTB7 Goldsborough, 8.1918- unnamed   Wolf & Zwicker, Portland 7/1898 29.7.1899 4/1908 Naval Militia TS 12.1914-4/1917, sold 9.1919
  

Displacement normal, t

255

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

60.4

Breadth, m

6.27

Draught, m

2.08 mean

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 3 Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

6000

Max speed, kts

27

Fuel, t

coal 89

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

4 x 1 - 57/50 Driggs-Schroeder Mk II/III, 2 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

59

Project history: Authorized under the Act of 3.3.1897. Much trouble on trials and had to be re-engined before commissioning. General layout as in Farragut.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Renamed Coast Torpedo Boat No 7 in August 1918.

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