This list of steam-driven
torpedo boat
A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle. The first designs were steam-powered craft dedicated to ramming enemy ships with explosive spar torpedoes. Later evolutions launched variants of ...
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United States Navy
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includes all ships with the
hull classification symbol
The United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) use a hull classification symbol (sometimes called hull code or hull number) to identify their ships by type and by ind ...
TB, running from TB-1 of 1890 to TB-35 of 1901. It does not include the
Patrol Torpedo (PT) boats of
World War II
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''Cushing'' class torpedo boat
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''Ericsson'' class torpedo boat
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''Foote'' class torpedo boats
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''Porter'' class torpedo boats
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''Rowan'' class torpedo boat
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''Dahlgren'' class torpedo boats
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''Farragut'' class torpedo boat
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''Davis'' class torpedo boats
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''Morris'' class torpedo boat
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''Talbot'' class torpedo boats
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''MacKenzie'' class torpedo boats
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''Stringham'' class torpedo boat
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''Goldsborough'' class torpedo boat
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''Bailey'' class torpedo boat
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''Somers'' class torpedo boat
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''Manley'' class torpedo boat
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''Bagley'' class torpedo boats
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''Blakely'' class torpedo boats
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Re-classification in 1918
On 1 August 1918 all 17 surviving torpedo boats were redesignated as Coast Torpedo Boats and given numbers in place of their original names
[Paul H. Silverstone, ''US Warships of World War I'', Ian Allen Ltd, 1970.] and were subsequently sold for breaking up in 1919 and 1920.
See also
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PT boat
A PT boat (short for patrol torpedo boat) was a motor torpedo boat used by the United States Navy in World War II. It was small, fast, and inexpensive to build, valued for its maneuverability and speed but hampered at the beginning of the war ...
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United States Navy torpedo retrievers
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References
* Blackford, Charles Minor. ''Torpedoboat Sailor.'' Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1968.
* Chesneau, Roger, Eugène M. Koleśnik, and N. J. M. Campbell. ''Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905.'' New York: Mayflower Books, 1979.
* Fock, Harald. ''Fast Fighting Boats, 1870–1945 Their Design, Construction, and Use.'' Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, 1978.
* Gardiner, Robert, Randal Gray, and Przemysław Budzbon. ''Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921.'' London: Conway Maritime Press, 1985.
* Mooney, James L. ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.'' Washington: Naval Historical Center, Dept. of the Navy, 1991.
* Moore, John Evelyn. ''Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I.'' New York: Military Press, 1990.
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A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle. The first designs were steam-powered craft dedicated to ramming enemy ships with explosive spar torpedoes. Later evolutions launched variants of s ...
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