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Two '''''Talbot'' class torpedo boats''' were completed for the [[U.S. Navy]] in April, 1898.
 
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Designed in-house by Herreshoff, these two boats were the smallest steam torpedo boats built for the U.S. Navy (excluding the {{US-Manley}}, which was never commissioned), being about one third the displacement of the [[Davis Class Torpedo Boat (1898)|''Davis'' class]] boats ordered at the same time.{{BauerRobertsRegister|p. 165}}
  
 
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Latest revision as of 14:36, 27 April 2018

Two Talbot class torpedo boats were completed for the U.S. Navy in April, 1898.

Overview of 2 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name Builder Laid Down Launched Completed Fate
Talbot Herreshoff Manufacturing Company 8 Apr, 1897 14 Nov, 1897 4 Apr, 1898 Sold 1920
Gwin Herreshoff Manufacturing Company 14 Apr, 1897 15 Nov, 1897 4 Apr, 1898 Sold 1925

Construction

Designed in-house by Herreshoff, these two boats were the smallest steam torpedo boats built for the U.S. Navy (excluding the Manley, which was never commissioned), being about one third the displacement of the Davis class boats ordered at the same time.[1]

Armament

  • one 1-pdr gun
  • two 18-in torpedo tubes on centreline

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 165.

Bibliography

  • Bauer, K. Jack and Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants. New York: Greenwood Press.
  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Friedman, Norman (1985). U.S. Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. (on Amazon.com).
  • Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The New Navy 1883-1922. New York: Routledge.
  • Simpson, Richard V. (2001). Building the Mosquito Fleet: The U.S. Navy's First Torpedo Boats. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing.


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