U.S.S. Goldsborough (1899)

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U.S.S. Goldsborough (1899)
Hull Number: TB-20
Builder: Wolff & Zwicker[1]
Ordered: Act of 3 March, 1897[2]
Laid down: 14 July, 1898[3]
Launched: 29 July, 1899[4]
Commissioned: 9 April, 1908[5]
Decommissioned: 12 March, 1919[6]
Sold: 8 September, 1919[7]
Fate: Broken up
U.S.S. Goldsborough was a torpedo boat completed in 1901 for the U.S. Navy.

Construction

This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships

Goldsborough was launched 29 July, 1899 by the Wolff & Zwicker Iron Works of Portland, Oregon, sponsored by Miss Gertrude Ballin.

Although initially completed in 1901, Goldsborough failed her acceptance trials and suffered a broken propeller shaft which resulted in damage to her hull. She sustained additional damage in a collision with a wharf at the Puget Sound Navy Yard on 15 November, 1901.[8] Around the same time it was decided her original engines were unsuitable and would require replacement.[9] Goldsborough spent the next six years under repair and reconstruction.

Service

Goldsborough was finally placed in full commission in the Puget Sound Navy Yard on 9 April, 1908, Lieutenant Daniel T. Ghent in command.

Goldsborough was based at San Diego, as a unit of the Pacific Torpedo Fleet, cruising for six years along the coast of California and the Pacific Coast of Mexico in a schedule of torpedo practice and joint fleet exercises and maneuvers. She was placed in ordinary at the Mare Island Navy Yard on 26 March, 1914 and turned over to the Oregon Naval Militia at Portland in December. She returned to Navy hands in 1917 and was fully commissioned on 7 April, 1917 for coastal patrol duties on the West Coast throughout World War I.

She was designated Coast Torpedo Boat No. 7 on 1 August, 1918, her name being assigned to a new destroyer under construction. The torpedo boat remained in service for several months after the Armistice before being decommissioned for the last time at the Puget Sound Navy Yard on 12 March, 1919. The former Goldsborough was sold for scrapping on 8 September, 1919.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

  • four 6-pounder guns
  • two 18-inch torpedo tubes

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 38.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 157.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 157.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 157.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 157.
  6. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 38.
  7. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 38.
  8. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 38.
  9. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 157.
  10. Register of Officers, 1909. p. 36.
  11. Register of Officers, 1911. p. 40.
  12. Register of Officers, 1911. p. 40.
  13. Register of Officers, 1912. p. 48.
  14. Register of Officers, 1911. p. 40.
  15. Register of Officers, 1912. p. 48.
  16. Register of Officers, 1912. p. 48.
  17. Register of Officers, 1913. p. 46.
  18. Register of Officers, 1913. p. 46.
  19. Register of Officers, 1912. p. 48.
  20. Register of Officers, 1913. p. 46.
  21. Register of Officers, 1914. p. 50.
  22. Register of Officers, 1913. p. 46.
  23. "The Navy Gazette". Army and Navy Register. 31 January, 1914. Vol. LV, No. 1,750, p. 151.

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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