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USS O'Brien (TB-30)
Torpedo boat of the United States Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other ships with the same name, see USS O'Brien.
USS O’Brien (TB-30) was a Blakely-class torpedo boat in the United States Navy named after Captain Jeremiah O'Brien and his five brothers, Gideon, John, William, Dennis and Joseph, who captured HMS Margaretta on June 12, 1775 during the American Revolution.
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Name | O’Brien |
Namesake | Captain Jeremiah O’Brien (1744–1818) |
Builder | Lewis Nixon Shipyard, Elizabethtown, New Jersey |
Laid down | 29 December 1898 |
Launched | 24 September 1900 |
Sponsored by | Miss Mira O’Brien, great-great granddaughter of Joseph O’Brien |
Commissioned | 15 July 1905; 119 years ago (1905) |
Decommissioned | date unknown |
Stricken | 3 March 1909; 115 years ago (1909) |
Fate | Used as a target |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Blakely-class torpedo boat |
Displacement | 220 long tons (220 t) |
Length | 157 ft (48 m) |
Beam | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
Draft | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) (mean)[2] |
Installed power | not known |
Propulsion | not known |
Speed | 25 kn (29 mph; 46 km/h)[2] |
Complement | 28 officers and enlisted |
Armament | 3 × 1-pounder, 2 × 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes |
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