Porter Class Torpedo Boat (1896)
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Two Porter class torpedo boats were completed for the U.S. Navy in 1897.
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| Citations for this data available on individual ship pages | |||||
| Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
| Porter | Herreshoff Manufacturing Company | Feb, 1896 | 9 Sep, 1896 | 20 Feb, 1897 | Sold 1912 |
| Du Pont | Herreshoff Manufacturing Company | Feb, 1896 | 30 Mar, 1897 | 23 Sep, 1897 | Sold 1920 |
Construction
Armament
- four 1-pdr guns
- three 18-in torpedo tubes, one on the centreline aft, one each abreast fore funnel
See Also
Footnotes
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.
- Simpson, Richard V. (2001). Building the Mosquito Fleet: The U.S. Navy's First Torpedo Boats. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing.
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