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PORTER torpedo boats (1897)


Ships


No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
TB6 Porter 184 Herreshoff, Bristol 2/1896 9.9.1896 2/1897 stricken 11.1912
TB7, 8.1918- CTB3 DuPont, 8.1918- unnamed 185 Herreshoff, Bristol 2/1896 30.3.1897 9/1897 sold 7.1920


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

165

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

53.5

Breadth, m

5.41

Draught, m

1.42 mean

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VQE, 3 Normand boilers

Power, h. p.

3200

Max speed, kts

27.5

Fuel, t

coal 76

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

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

Complement

24



Standard scale images


<i>Porter </i>1897
Porter 1897


Project history

Authorised under the Act of 2.3.1895. Three funnels, the second and third far apart. Three single TT, to port and starboard of forward funnels and far aft.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.