USS Goldsborough (TB-20)

	USS Goldsborough (TB-20), in drydock, June 6, 1900.
History
United States
Name:	Goldsborough
Namesake:	Rear Admiral Louis M. Goldsborough
Ordered:	3 March 1897 (authorised)
Builder:	Wolff & Zwicker Iron Works, Portland, OR
Laid down:	14 July 1898
Launched:	29 July 1899
Sponsored by:	Miss Gertrude Ballin
Commissioned:	9 April 1908
Decommissioned:	12 March 1919
Renamed:	Coast Torpedo Boat No. 7,; 1 August 1918;
Fate:	sold for scrapping, 8 September 1919
General characteristics [1]
Class and type:	Goldsborough-class torpedo boat
Displacement:	255 long tons (259 t)[2]
Length:	198 ft (60 m)
Beam:	20 ft 7 in (6.27 m)
Draft:	6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) (mean)[2]
Installed power:	3 × Thornycroft boilers; 6,000 ihp (4,500 kW);
Propulsion:	vertical triple expansion engine; 2 × screw propellers;
Speed:	27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph); 27.4 kn (31.5 mph; 50.7 km/h) (Speed on Trial)[2];
Complement:	59 officers and enslisted
Armament:	4 × 6-pounder (57 mm (2.24 in)) guns; 2 × 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes (2x1);

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, Lieutenant Daniel T. Ghent in command.

Goldsborough based at San Diego, California, as a unit of the Pacific Torpedo Fleet, cruising for 6 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 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

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

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
Additional technical data from Gardiner, Robert (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Conway Maritime Press. p. 157. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.

External links

Photo gallery of Goldsborough at NavSource Naval History

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[1] "USS Goldsborough (TB-20)". Navsource.org. Retrieved 18 July 2015.

[congress-2] "Table 11 - Ships on Navy List June 30, 1919". Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office: 725. 1921.