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USS Goldsborough (TB-20)

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USS Goldsborough (TB-20), in drydock, 6 June 1900.
History
United States
NameGoldsborough
NamesakeRear Admiral Louis M. Goldsborough
Ordered3 March 1897 (authorised)
BuilderWolff & Zwicker Iron Works, Portland, OR
Laid down14 July 1898
Launched29 July 1899
Sponsored byMiss Gertrude Ballin
Commissioned9 April 1908
Decommissioned12 March 1919
Renamed
  • Coast Torpedo Boat No. 7,
  • 1 August 1918
FateSold for scrapping, 8 September 1919
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeGoldsborough-class torpedo boat
Displacement255 long tons (259 t)[2]
Length198 ft (60 m)
Beam20 ft 7 in (6.27 m)
Draft6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) (mean)[2]
Installed power
Propulsion
Speed
  • 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
  • 27.4 kn (31.5 mph; 50.7 km/h) (Speed on Trial)[2]
Complement59 officers and enslisted
Armament

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.

Goldsborough based at San Diego, California, as a unit of the Pacific Torpedo Fleet, cruising for six 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 and training new sailors 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

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  1. ^ "USS Goldsborough (TB-20)". Navsource.org. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  2. ^ a b c "Table 11 – Ships on Navy List June 30, 1919". Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office: 725. 1921.
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