USS Dahlgren (TB-9)

USS Dahlgren (TB-9)


For other ships of the same name, see USS Dahlgren.

USS Dahlgen (TB-9) fitting out at Bath, Maine, in 1899.
Career (U.S.)
Namesake: Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren
Ordered: 10 June 1896
Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, ME
Laid down: 11 December 1897
Launched: 29 May 1899
Commissioned: 16 June 1900
Decommissioned: 11 March 1919
Renamed: Coast Torpedo Boat No. 4, 1 August 1918
Fate: sold, 19 July 1920
General characteristics
Class & type: Dahlgren (TB-9)
Displacement: 146 tons
Length: 151 ft 4 in (46.13 m)
Beam: 16 ft 5 in (5.00 m)
Draft: 4 ft 8 in (1.42 m)
Propulsion: 2 Normand boilers, 2-shaft vertical triple expansion engines, 4,200 ihp (3,091 kW)
Speed: 31 kn
Complement: 29 officers and enlisted
Armament: 4 × 1-pounder guns
2 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes

USS Dahlgren (Torpedo Boat No. 9/TB-9/Coast Torpedo Boat No. 4), was a Coast Torpedo Boat.

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