USS Goldsborough (TB-20)
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| Namesake: | Rear Admiral Louis M. Goldsborough |
| Ordered: | 3 March 1897 (authorised) |
| Builder: | Wolff & Zwicker Iron Works, Portland, OR |
| Laid down: | 14 July 1898 |
| Launched: | 29 July 1899 |
| Commissioned: | 9 April 1908 |
| Decommissioned: | 12 March 1919 |
| Renamed: | Coast Torpedo Boat No. 7, 1 August 1918 |
| Fate: | sold for scrapping, 8 September 1919 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 255 tons |
| Length: | 198 ft (60 m) |
| Beam: | 20 ft 7 in (6.27 m) |
| Draft: | 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) |
| Propulsion: | 3 Thornycroft boilers, 2-shaft vertical triple expansion engines, 6,000 ihp (4,416 kW) |
| Speed: | 27 kn |
| Complement: | 59 officers and enslisted |
| Armament: |
4 × 6-pounder guns 2 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes |
The first USS Goldsborough (Torpedo Boat No. 20/TB-20/Coast Torpedo Boat No. 7) was a torpedo boat in the United States Navy during World War I. She was named for Louis M. Goldsborough.
Goldsborough was launched 29 July 1899 by the Wolff & Zwicker Iron Works, Portland, Oregon; sponsored by Miss Gertrude Ballin; commissioned in the Puget Sound Navy Yard 9 April 1908, Lieutenant Daniel T. Ghent in command.
Goldsborough based at San Diego, California, as a unit of the Pacific Torpedo Fleet, cruising for 6 years along the coast of California and the Pacific Coast of Mexico in a schedule of torpedo practice, and joint fleet exercises and maneuvers. She was placed in ordinary at the Mare Island Navy Yard 26 March 1914 ; served the Oregon State Naval Militia at Portland (December 1914-April 1917) ; and again fully commissioned 7 April 1917 for Pacific coast patrol throughout World War I.
She was designated Coast Torpedo Boat No. 7 on 1 August 1918, her name being assigned to a new destroyer under construction. The torpedo boat decommissioned in the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, 12 March 1919 and sold for scrapping on 8 September 1919.
References
- This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- Additional technical data from Gardiner, Robert (1979). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Conway Maritime Press. p. 157. ISBN 0 85177 133 5.
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