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FARRAGUT large torpedo boat (1899)


Ships


No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
TB11, 8.1918- CTB5 Farragut, 8.1918- unnamed 48 Union Iron Wks, San Francisco 7/1897 16.7.1898 3/1899 Naval Militia TS 1.1915-4/1917, sold 9.1919


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

279

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

65.2

Breadth, m

6.30

Draught, m

1.83 mean

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 3 Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

5878

Max speed, kts

30

Fuel, t

coal 95

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

4 x 1 - 57/50 Driggs-Schroeder Mk II/III, 2 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

66



Standard scale images


<i>Farragut </i>1901
Farragut 1901


Project history

Authorized under the Act of 10.6.1896. Classed as a torpedo boat, but her displacement indicates that she was the first US destroyer. Attained 30.13kts on trials. There were two funnels and two single TT abaft the second funnel and far aft.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Renamed Coast Torpedo Boat No 5 in August 1918.