Dubuque-class gunboat

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USS Paducah (PG-18)
Class overview
Builders Gas Engine & Power Company & Charles L. Seabury Company, Morris Heights, New York City
OperatorsFlag of the United States Navy (official).svg  United States Navy
Built1903-1905
In commission1905-1946
Planned2
Completed2
Retired2
General characteristics [1] [2]
Type Gunboat
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.

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Design

In 1902, two gunboats, Dubuque and Paducah were ordered from Gas Engine & Power Company & Charles L. Seabury Company of New York for survey and patrol duties in the Caribbean. They were 174 feet (53.04 m) long between perpendiculars and 200 feet 5 inches (61.09 m) long overall, with an unusual high and rounded bow, fitted with a bowsprit. Beam was 35 feet (10.67 m) with a draft of 13 feet 4 inches (4.06 m). Displacement was 1,084 long tons (1,101 t). The hull was of composite construction, with steel above the waterline and wood below. Two Babcock & Wilcox boilers fed vertical triple-expansion steam engines rated at 1,250 indicated horsepower (930 kW), driving two shafts and giving a speed of 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph). Two tall and thin funnels were fitted. [3] [4]

Ships

ShipLaid down [5] Launched [5] Completed [5] Fate
Dubuque 22 September 190315 August 190431 May 1905Sold 19 December 1946 [6]
Paducah 22 September 190311 October 190431 August 1905Sold 19 December 1946 [7]
Purchased by Haganah and renamed Geulah, caught trying to smuggle Jewish refugees to Palestine 2 October 1947. Merchant ship 1948, scrapped 1951. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "PG-18 Paducah". Navsource.org. Retrieved April 3, 2015.
  2. ↑ "PG-17 Dubuque". Navsource.org. Retrieved April 3, 2015.
  3. ↑ Friedman 2009, p. 417.
  4. ↑ Chesneau and Kolesnik 1979, p. 167.
  5. 1 2 3 Friedman 1987, p. 462.
  6. ↑ "Dubuque (Gunboat No. 17) i 1905-1946". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  7. ↑ "Paducah (Gunboat No. 18) i". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
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