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1905 class of US Navy gunboats

USS Paducah (PG-18)
Class overview
BuildersGas Engine & Power Company & Charles L. Seabury Company, Morris Heights, New York City
Operators United States Navy
Built1903-1905
In commission1905-1946
Planned2
Completed2
Retired2
General characteristics
TypeGunboat
Displacement1,174 tons
Length200 ft (61 m)
Beam35 ft (11 m)
Draught12 ft (3.7 m)
Propulsion
  • 2 × 500ihp Gas Engine Power Co. vertical triple-expansion engines
  • 2 × 623.5ihp vertical triple-expansion engines (1921)
Speed13 knots
Complement
  • 162
  • 161 (1921)
Armament

The Dubuque class gunboats were a class of gunboats built by the United States prior to World War I. The class was designed in 1903. The United States Navy commissioned 2 Dubuque-class gunboats in 1903. Dubuques had a design speed of 12 knots, and a main armament of six 4" rapid-fire guns and four 6-pounder rapid-fire guns in single mounts.

Design

In 1902, two gunboats, Dubuque and Paducah were ordered from Gas Engine & Power Company & Charles L. Seabury Company of New York for survey and patrol duties in the Caribbean. They were 174 feet (53.04 m) long between perpendiculars and 200 feet 5 inches (61.09 m) long overall, with an unusual high and rounded bow, fitted with a bowsprit. Beam was 35 feet (10.67 m) with a draft of 13 feet 4 inches (4.06 m). Displacement was 1,084 long tons (1,101 t). The hull was of composite construction, with steel above the waterline and wood below. Two Babcock & Wilcox boilers fed vertical triple-expansion steam engines rated at 1,250 indicated horsepower (930 kW), driving two shafts and giving a speed of 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph). Two tall and thin funnels were fitted.

Ships

Ship Laid down Launched Completed Fate
Dubuque 22 September 1903 15 August 1904 31 May 1905 Sold 19 December 1946
Paducah 22 September 1903 11 October 1904 31 August 1905 Sold 19 December 1946
Purchased by Haganah and renamed Geulah, caught trying to smuggle Jewish refugees to Palestine 2 October 1947. Merchant ship 1948, scrapped 1951.

References

  1. ^ "PG-18 Paducah". Navsource.org. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
  2. "PG-17 Dubuque". Navsource.org. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
  3. Friedman 2009, p. 417.
  4. Chesneau and Kolesnik 1979, p. 167.
  5. ^ Friedman 1987, p. 462.
  6. "Dubuque (Gunboat No. 17) i 1905-1946". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  7. "Paducah (Gunboat No. 18) i". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  • Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.
  • Friedman, Norman (1987). U.S. Small Combatants: Including PT-Boats, Subchasers and the Brown Water Navy. Annapolis, Maryland, USA: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-713-5.

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