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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}} | |
==Armament== | ==Armament== | ||
Revision as of 02:48, 12 December 2014
Two Talbot class torpedo boats were completed for the U.S. Navy in April, 1898.
| Overview of 2 vessels | |||||
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| Citations for this data available on individual ship pages | |||||
| Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
| Talbot | Herreshoff | 8 Apr, 1897 | 14 Nov, 1897 | 4 Apr, 1898 | Sold 1920 |
| Gwin | Herreshoff | 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
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 165.
Bibliography
- 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.
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