USS Winslow (TB-5), photographed circa 1898, with a small "water taxi" rowing past her bow.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Winslow |
Namesake | Rear admiral John Ancrum Winslow |
Ordered | 26 July 1894 (authorised) |
Builder | Columbian Iron Works and Dry Dock Co., Baltimore, Maryland |
Laid down | 8 May 1896 |
Launched | 8 May 1897 |
Sponsored by | Miss E. H. Hazel |
Commissioned | 29 December 1897 |
Decommissioned | 12 July 1910 |
Stricken | 12 July 1910 |
Identification | TB-5 |
Fate | Sold, January 1920 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Foote-class torpedo boat |
Displacement | 142 long tons (144 t)[2] |
Length | 161 ft 6.75 in (49.2443 m) |
Beam | 16 ft (4.9 m) |
Draft | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) (mean)[2] |
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Complement | 20 officers and enlisted |
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USS Winslow (Torpedo Boat No. 5/TB-5) was a United States Navy torpedo boat noted for its involvement at the First and Second Battle of Cardenas during the Spanish–American War. She was named for Rear Admiral John Ancrum Winslow.