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CUSHING torpedo boat (1890)


Ships


No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
TB1 Cushing 152 Herreshoff, Bristol 4/1888 23.1.1890 4/1890 sunk as target 24.9.1920


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

116

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

42.7

Breadth, m

4.60

Draught, m

1.47

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VQE, 2 Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

1600

Max speed, kts

23

Fuel, t

coal 35

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

3 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss Mk I/II, 1 - 450 TT (bow), 2 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

22



Standard scale images


<i>Cushing </i>1890
Cushing 1890


Project history

Authorised under the Act of 3.8.1886, and used initially for experimental work. Two funnels far apart, and ram bow, with turtle deck forward. Two broadside training TT and one fixed forward.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.