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UNITED STATES NAVY (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)

TORPEDO SHIPS

WILKES torpedo boat (1902)

similar Blakely 1904

 

No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
TB35 Wilkes 99 Gas Engine & Power and CL Seabury, Morris Heights 6/1899 28.9.1901 9/1902 stricken 11.1913

  

Displacement normal, t

175

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

53.4

Breadth, m

5.38

Draught, m

1.42 mean

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 3 Seabury boilers

Power, h. p.

3000

Max speed, kts

27

Fuel, t

coal 66

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

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

Complement

29

Project history: Authorised under the Act of 4.5.1898. Funnels and TT arranged as in Blakely class.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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