USS Morris (TB-14)

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.

For other ships with the same name, see USS Morris.
USS Morris (TB-14)
USS Morris (TB-14), circa 1898, location unknown
History
United States
Namesake: Commodore 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
Stricken: 24 January 1924
Identification: TB-14
Fate: sold at public auction, 10 October 1924
General characteristics
Class and type: Morris-class torpedo boat
Displacement: 105 long tons (107 t)[1]
Length: 139 ft 6 in (42.52 m)
Beam: 15 ft 4 in (4.67 m)
Draft: 4 ft 1 in (1.24 m) (mean)[1]
Installed power:
  • 2 × Normand boiler boilers
  • 1,750 ihp (1,300 kW)
Propulsion:
  • vertical triple expansion engines
  • 2 × screw propellers
Speed:
  • 23 kn (26 mph; 43 km/h)
  • 24 kn (28 mph; 44 km/h) (Speed on Trial)[1]
Complement: 26 officers and enlisted
Armament:

After east coast shakedown, Morris arrived Newport Rhode Island, 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, Delaware.

References
  1. "Table 10.—Ships Authorized—1883–1919". Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office: 719. 1921.
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