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UNITED STATES NAVY (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)

TORPEDO SHIPS

TALBOT torpedo boats (1898)

Names

TB15 Talbot

TB16 Gwin

Builders

Herreshoff, Bristol: TB15, 16

Commissioned

4/1898: TB15, 16

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

5/1912: TB15

4/1914: TB16

  

Displacement normal, t

46

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

30.5

Breadth, m

3.81

Draught, m

0.99 mean

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 Normand boiler

Power, h. p.

850

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

coal 9

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 37/40 Driggs-Schroeder heavy Mk I, 2 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

12

Project history: Authorised under the Act of 10.6.1896. Single funnel, two single TT forward of funnel and far aft.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Gwin decommissioned and used as ferry April 1914, later under name Cyane. Talbot was used for oil fuel trials in 1900.

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