USS Morris (TB-14)
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| Namesake: | Robert Morris |
| Ordered: | 6 June 1896 (authorised) |
| Builder: | Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., Bristol, RI |
| Laid down: | 19 November 1897 |
| Launched: | 13 April 1898 |
| Commissioned: | 11 May 1898 |
| Renamed: | Coast Torpedo Boat No. 6, 1 August 1918 |
| Struck: | 24 January 1924 |
| Fate: | sold at public auction, 10 October 1924 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 105 tons |
| Length: | 139 ft 6 in (42.5 m) |
| Beam: | 15 ft 6 in (4.7 m) |
| Draft: | 4 ft 1 in (1.2 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 Normand boilers, 2-shaft vertical triple expansion engines, 1,750 ihp (1,288 kW) |
| Speed: | 23 kn |
| Complement: | 26 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 3 × 1-pounder guns 3 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes |
The fifth USS Morris (Torpedo Boat No. 14/TB-14/Coast Torpedo Boat No. 6) was laid down by Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., Bristol, RI, 19 November 1897; launched 13 April 1898; and commissioned 11 May 1898, Lt. C. E. Fox in command.
After east coast shakedown, Morris arrived Newport, RI, for range tender and training services until World War I, when patrol duties were assigned. From 19 April 1918 through early March 1919 she patrolled the West Indies, until the Armistice investigating suspected enemy sabotage. Now known as Coast Torpedo Boat No. 6, she returned to Newport and decommissioned 24 March 1919, but served as torpedo range tender there for 5 years. Last of the old torpedo boats, she was struck from the Naval Register 24 January 1924, and sold at public auction 10 October 1924 to Frank B. Jones of Wilmington, DE.
[edit] References
- This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- Technical data from Gardiner, Robert (1979). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Conway Maritime Press, p. 161. ISBN 0 85177 133 5.
