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FIGHTING SHIPS OF THE WORLD
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TORPEDO SHIPS
FOOTE torpedo boats (1897 - 1898)


Ships


No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
TB3, 8.1918- CTB1 Foote, 8.1918- unnamed 78 Columbian Iron Wks, Baltimore 5/1896 1.10.1896 8/1897 sold 7.1920
TB4, 8.1918- CTB2 Rodgers, 8.1918- unnamed 79 Columbian Iron Wks, Baltimore 5/1896 10.11.1896 4/1898 stricken 10.1919
TB5 Winslow 80 Columbian Iron Wks, Baltimore 5/1896 6.1.1897 12/1897 stricken 7.1910


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

142

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

48.8

Breadth, m

4.91

Draught, m

1.52 mean

No of shafts

2

Machinery

TB3: 2 VTE, 2 Thornycroft boilers

TB4, 5: 2 VTE, 2 Mosher boilers

Power, h. p.

2000

Max speed, kts

25

Fuel, t

coal 44

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

3 x 1 - 37/40 Driggs-Schroeder heavy Mk I, 3 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

20



Standard scale images


<i>Foote </i>1897
Foote 1897


Project history

Authorised under the Act of 26.7.1894. Two funnels far apart. Three single TT, to port and starboard of fore funnel and far aft.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.