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WILKES torpedo boat (1902)


Ships


No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
TB35 Wilkes 99 Gas Engine & Power and CL Seabury, Morris Heights 6/1899 28.9.1901 9/1902 stricken 11.1913


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

175

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

53.4

Breadth, m

5.38

Draught, m

1.42 mean

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 3 Seabury boilers

Power, h. p.

3000

Max speed, kts

27

Fuel, t

coal 66

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

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

Complement

29



Project history

Authorised under the Act of 4.5.1898. Funnels and TT arranged as in Blakely class.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.