Foote Class Torpedo Boat (1896): Difference between revisions

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Three Foote class torpedo boats were completed for the U.S. Navy in 1897 and 1898.

Overview of 3 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Completed	Fate
Foote	Columbian Iron Works	1 May, 1896	1 Oct, 1896	7 Aug, 1897	Sold 1920
Rodgers	Columbian Iron Works	6 May, 1896	10 Nov, 1896	2 Apr, 1898	Sold 1920
Winslow	Columbian Iron Works	8 May, 1896	6 Jan, 1897	29 Dec, 1897	Sold 1911

three 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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