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GOLDSBOROUGH large torpedo boat (1908)


Ships


No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
TB20, 8.1918- CTB7 Goldsborough, 8.1918- unnamed   Wolf & Zwicker, Portland 7/1898 29.7.1899 4/1908 Naval Militia TS 12.1914-4/1917, sold 9.1919


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

255

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

60.4

Breadth, m

6.27

Draught, m

2.08 mean

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 3 Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

6000

Max speed, kts

27

Fuel, t

coal 89

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

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

Complement

59



Standard scale images


<i>Goldsborough </i>1908
Goldsborough 1908


Project history

Authorized under the Act of 3.3.1897. Much trouble on trials and had to be re-engined before commissioning. General layout as in Farragut.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Renamed Coast Torpedo Boat No 7 in August 1918.