Porter Class Torpedo Boat (1896): Difference between revisions

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Two Porter class torpedo boats were completed for the U.S. Navy in 1897.

Overview of 2 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Completed	Fate
Porter	Herreshoff	Feb, 1896	9 Sep, 1896	20 Feb, 1897	Sold 1912
Du Pont	Herreshoff	Feb, 1896	30 Mar, 1897	23 Sep, 1897	Sold 1920

four 1-pdr guns
three 18-in torpedo tubes, one on the centreline aft, one each abreast fore funnel

Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
Friedman, Norman (1985). U.S. Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. (on Amazon.com).

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 Two '''''Porter'' class torpedo boats''' were completed for the [[U.S. Navy]] in 1897.
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