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Torpedo boat of the United States Navy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Nicholson (TB-29) was a Blakely-class torpedo boat in the United States Navy.
USS Nicholson (TB-29), circa 1902, location unknown. | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | Nicholson |
Namesake | |
Builder | Lewis Nixon Shipyard, Elizabethtown, New Jersey |
Laid down | 6 December 1898 |
Launched | 23 September 1901 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont |
Commissioned | 10 January 1905 |
Decommissioned | date unknown |
Stricken | 3 March 1909 |
Fate | Used as a target |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Blakely-class torpedo boat |
Displacement | 218 long tons (221 t) |
Length | 157 ft (48 m) |
Beam | 17 ft 8 in (5.38 m) |
Draft | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) (mean)[2] |
Installed power | not known |
Propulsion | not known |
Speed | |
Complement | 28 officers and enlisted |
Armament | 3 × 1-pounder, 2 × 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes |
The first ship to be so named by the Navy, Nicholson (TB–29) was laid down 6 December 1898 by Lewis Nixon's Crescent Shipyard, Elizabethport, New Jersey; launched 23 September 1901; sponsored by Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont; and commissioned at New York City 10 January 1905.
Nicholson served with the Atlantic Fleet until struck from the Navy List 3 March 1909.
Nicholson was disposed of by being used as a target.
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