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TORPEDO SHIPS

PORTER torpedo boats (1897)

Porter 1897

No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
TB6 Porter 184 Herreshoff, Bristol 2/1896 9.9.1896 2/1897 stricken 11.1912
TB7, 8.1918- CTB3 DuPont, 8.1918- unnamed 185 Herreshoff, Bristol 2/1896 30.3.1897 9/1897 sold 7.1920
  

Displacement normal, t

165

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

53.5

Breadth, m

5.41

Draught, m

1.42 mean

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VQE, 3 Normand boilers

Power, h. p.

3200

Max speed, kts

27.5

Fuel, t

coal 76

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

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

Complement

24

Project history: Authorised under the Act of 2.3.1895. Three funnels, the second and third far apart. Three single TT, to port and starboard of forward funnels and far aft.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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