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MORRIS torpedo boat (1898)


Ships


No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
TB14, 8.1918- CTB6 Morris, 8.1918- unnamed 190 Herreshoff, Bristol 11/1897 13.4.1898 5/1898 stricken 1.1924


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

105

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

42.5

Breadth, m

4.73

Draught, m

1.24 mean

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Normand boilers

Power, h. p.

1750

Max speed, kts

23

Fuel, t

coal 26

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

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

Complement

26



Standard scale images


<i>Morris </i>1898
Morris 1898


Project history

Authorised under the Act of 10.6.1896. Two funnels not far apart. Three single TT to port and starboard, and far aft.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Served mostly as torpedo range tender.