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Revision as of 02:20, 13 February 2017

U.S.S. Porter (1896)
Hull Number: TB-6
Builder: Herreshoff[1]
Ordered: Act of 2 March, 1895[2]
Laid down: Feb, 1896[3]
Launched: 9 Sep, 1896[4]
Commissioned: 20 Feb, 1897[5]
Stricken: 7 Nov, 1912[6]
Sold: 30 Dec, 1912[7]
U.S.S. Porter was one of two Porter class torpedo boats completed for the U.S. Navy.

Service

Porter was commissioned on 20 February, 1897 at Newport, Rhode Island with Lieutenant John C. Fremont in command.

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 160.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 160.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 160.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 160.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 160.
  6. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 36.
  7. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 36.
  8. "Navy Gazette". Army and Navy Journal. 27 August, 1898. Vol. XXXV, No. 1,827, p. 1084.
  9. Register of Officers, 1900. p. 34.

Bibliography


Porter Class Torpedo Boat
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