Dubuque-class gunboat

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 [1][2]
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.

  1. ^ "PG-18 Paducah". Navsource.org. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
  2. ^ "PG-17 Dubuque". Navsource.org. Retrieved 3 April 2015.