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NICHOLSON torpedo boats (1905)


Ships


No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
TB29 Nicholson 66 Lewis Nixon, Elizabethtown 12/1898 23.9.1901 1/1905 stricken 3.1909
TB30 O'Brien 67 Lewis Nixon, Elizabethtown 12/1898 24.9.1900 7/1905 stricken 3.1909


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

TB29: 218

TB30: 220

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

53.4

Breadth, m

5.18

Draught, m

TB29: 1.96 mean

TB30: 1.98 mean

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 3 Mosher boilers

Power, h. p.

3000

Max speed, kts

25

Fuel, t

coal 80

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

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

Complement

28



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.