USS Talbot (TB-15)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Talbot.
The first USS Talbot (Torpedo Boat No. 15/TB-15/YFB-3) was a torpedo boat in the United States Navy.
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USS Talbot (TB-15), underway, circa the early 1900s. | |
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United States | |
Name | Talbot |
Namesake | Lieutenant John G. Talbot |
Ordered | 10 June 1896 (authorised) |
Builder | Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., Bristol, RI |
Laid down | 8 April 1897 |
Launched | 14 November 1897 |
Commissioned | 4 April 1898 |
Decommissioned | 18 June 1940 |
Renamed | Berceau, 11 April 1918 |
Reclassified | as YFB-3, 17 July 1920 |
Stricken | 18 July 1944 |
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Fate | Sold for scrap, 18 July 1944 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Talbot-class torpedo boat |
Displacement | 46 long tons (47 t)[2] |
Length | 99 ft 6 in (30.33 m) |
Beam | 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) |
Draft | 3 ft 3 in (0.99 m) (mean)[2] |
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Complement | 16 officers and enlisted |
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