# List of torpedo boats of the United States Navy

This list of steam-driven torpedo boats of the United States Navy includes all ships with the hull classification symbol TB, running from TB-1 of 1890 to TB-35 of 1901. It does not include the Patrol Torpedo (PT) boats of World War II.
The first torpedo-boat to serve with the United States Navy was the experimental Stiletto of 31 tons, built in 1885-86 as a yacht by the Herreschoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Rhode Island. Designated WTB-1 (for "Wooden Torpedo Boat"), she was purchased under the Act of 3 March 1887 for use as a torpedo boat for experimental purposes and commissioned in July 1887. She measured 94 ft overall (88 ft 6in waterline) x 11 ft 6in x 3 ft, and had a 1-shaft vertical compound engine of 359 ihp, achieving 18.2 knots. She was stricken on 27 January 1911 and sold on 18 July 1911.
The authorisation for the following steel torpedo-boats was as follows:
* Act of 3 August 1886: TB-1
* Act of 30 June 1890: TB-2
* Act of 26 July 1894: TB-3 to TB-5
* Act of 2 March 1895: TB-6 to TB-8
* Act of 10 June 1896: TB-9 to TB-18
* Act of 3 March 1897: TB-19 to TB-23
* Act of 4 May 1898: TB-24 to TB-35 (also the first sixteen TBDs - see Bainbridge-class destroyer)

## Re-classification in 1918

On 1 August 1918 all 17 surviving torpedo boats were redesignated as Coast Torpedo Boats and given numbers in place of their original names and were subsequently sold for breaking up in 1919 and 1920.

## Cushing class torpedo boat

* USS Cushing (TB-1)

## Ericsson class torpedo boat

* USS Ericsson (TB-2)

## Foote class torpedo boats

* USS Foote (TB-3)
* USS Rodgers (TB-4)
* USS Winslow (TB-5)

## Porter class torpedo boats

* USS Porter (TB-6)
* USS Du Pont (TB-7)

## Rowan class torpedo boat

* USS Rowan (TB-8)

## Dahlgren class torpedo boats

* USS Dahlgren (TB-9)
* USS Craven (TB-10)

## Farragut class torpedo boat

* USS Farragut (TB-11)

## Davis class torpedo boats

* USS Davis (TB-12)
* USS Fox (TB-13)

## Morris class torpedo boat

* USS Morris (TB-14)

## Talbot class torpedo boats

* USS Talbot (TB-15)
* USS Gwin (TB-16)

## MacKenzie class torpedo boats

* USS MacKenzie (TB-17)
* USS McKee (TB-18)

## Stringham class torpedo boat

* USS Stringham (TB-19)

## Goldsborough class torpedo boat

* USS Goldsborough (TB-20)

## Bailey class torpedo boat

* USS Bailey (TB-21)

## Somers class torpedo boat

* USS Somers (TB-22)

## Manley class torpedo boat

* USS Manley (TB-23)

## Bagley class torpedo boats

* USS Bagley (TB-24)
* USS Barney (TB-25)
* USS Biddle (TB-26)

## Blakely class torpedo boats

* USS Blakely (TB-27)
* USS DeLong (TB-28)
* USS Nicholson (TB-29)
* USS O'Brien (TB-30)
* USS Shubrick (TB-31)
* USS Stockton (TB-32)
* USS Thornton (TB-33)
* USS Tingey (TB-34)
* USS Wilkes (TB-35)

## List of torpedo boats

| Hull No. | Ship Name | Shipyard | Authorised | Laid down | Launched | Commissioned | Fate |
| TB-1 | Cushing | Herreshoff, Bristol, Rhode Island | 3 August 1886 | April 1888 | 23 January 1890 | 22 April 1890 | Stricken 6 April 1912; sunk as target 24 September 1920. |
| TB-2 | Ericsson | Iowa Iron Works, Dubuque, Iowa | 30 June 1890 | 21 July 1892 | 12 May 1894 | 18 February 1897 | Stricken 6 April 1912; sunk as target. |
| TB-3 | Foote | Columbian Iron Works, Baltimore, Maryland | 26 July 1894 | 1 May 1896 | 1 October 1896 | 7 August 1897 | Renamed CTB-1 on 1 August 1918; sold 19 July 1920. |
| TB-4 | Rodgers | Columbian Iron Works, Baltimore, Maryland | 26 July 1894 | 6 May 1896 | 10 November 1896 | 1 April 1898 | Renamed CTB-2 on 1 August 1918; sold 19 July 1920. |
| TB-5 | Winslow | Columbian Iron Works, Baltimore, Maryland | 26 July 1894 | 8 May 1896 | 6 January 1897 | 29 December 1897 | Stricken 12 July 1910 and sold in January 1911. |
| TB-6 | Porter | Herreshoff, Bristol, Rhode Island | 2 March 1895 | February 1896 | 9 September 1896 | 20 February 1897 | Stricken 7 November 1912 and sold 30 December 1912. |
| TB-7 | DuPont | Herreshoff, Bristol, Rhode Island | 2 March 1895 | February 1896 | 30 March 1897 | 3 September 1897 | Renamed CTB-3 on 1 August 1918; sold 19 July 1920. |
| TB-8 | Rowan | Moran Brothers, Seattle, Washington | 2 March 1895 | 22 June 1896 | 8 April 1898 | 1 April 1899 | Stricken 29 October 1912 and used as target, sold 3 June 1918. |
| TB-9 | Dahlgren | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine | 10 June 1896 | 11 December 1897 | 29 May 1899 | 16 June 1900 | Renamed CTB-4 on 1 August 1918; sold 19 July 1920. |
| TB-10 | Craven | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine | 10 June 1896 | 6 December 1897 | 25 September 1899 | 9 June 1900 | Stricken 14 November 1913 and sunk as target in 1913. |
| TB-11 | Farragut | Union Iron Works, San Francisco | 10 June 1896 | 26 July 1897 | 16 July 1898 | 22 March 1899 | Renamed CTB-5 on 1 August 1918; sold 9 September 1919. |
| TB-12 | Davis | Wolf & Zwicker, Portland, Oregon | 10 June 1896 | 2 March 1897 | 4 June 1898 | 10 May 1899 | Stricken 12 November 1913; sold 21 April 1920 |
| TB-13 | Fox | Wolf & Zwicker, Portland, Oregon | 10 June 1896 | 4 March 1897 | 4 July 1898 | 8 July 1899 | Stricken 31 August 1916; sold as mercantile Ace 31 August 1920. |
| TB-14 | Morris | Herreshoff, Bristol, Rhode Island | 10 June 1896 | 19 November 1897 | 13 April 1898 | 11 May 1898 | Renamed CTB-6 on 1 August 1918; sold 10 October 1924. |
| TB-15 | Talbot | Herreshoff, Bristol, Rhode Island | 10 June 1896 | 8 April 1897 | 14 November 1897 | 4 April 1898 | Renamed USS Berceau (YFB 3) 11 April 1918; sold 18 July 1944. |
| TB-16 | Gwin | Herreshoff, Bristol, Rhode Island | 10 June 1896 | 14 April 1897 | 15 November 1897 | 4 April 1898 | Renamed USS Cyane (YFB 4) 11 April 1918; sold 24 September 1925. |
| TB-17 | MacKenzie | Charles Hillman Co., Philadelphia, Pa. | 10 June 1896 | 15 April 1897 | 19 February 1898 | 1 May 1899 | Stricken 10 March 1916 and used as target. |
| TB-18 | McKee | Columbian Iron Works, Baltimore, Maryland | 10 June 1896 | 11 September 1897 | 5 March 1898 | 16 May 1898 | Stricken 6 April 1912 and used as target; sunk 24 September 1920. |
| TB-19 | Stringham | Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wilmington, Delaware | 3 March 1897 | 21 March 1898 | 10 June 1899 | 7 November 1905 | Stricken 26 November 1915 and used as target ship 1915; sold 18 March 1923. |
| TB-20 | Goldsborough | Wolf & Zwicker, Portland, Oregon; completed by Puget Sound Navy Yard | 3 March 1897 | 14 July 1898 | 29 July 1899 | 9 April 1908 | Renamed CTB-7 on 1 August 1918; sold 8 September 1919. |
| TB-21 | Bailey | Gas Engine & Power Co., Morris Heights, N.Y. | 3 March 1897 | 30 April 1898 | 5 December 1899 | 10 June 1901 | Renamed CTB-8 on 1 August 1918; sold 10 March 1920. |
| TB-22 | Somers | G. Schichau, Elbing, Germany (purchased during Spanish-American War on 25 March 1898) | 3 March 1897 | 1893 | 1897 | 28 March 1898 | Renamed CTB-9 on 1 August 1918; sold 19 July 1920. |
| TB-23 | Manley | Yarrow & Co, Poplar, London (purchased during Spanish-American War on 13 April 1898) | 3 March 1897 | - | ca. 1894 | never commissioned | Renamed USS Levant (YFB) 11 April 1918; sold 21 April 1920. |
| TB-24 | Bagley | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine | 4 May 1898 | 4 January 1900 | 25 September 1900 | 18 October 1901 | Renamed CTB-10 on 1 August 1918; sold 9 April 1919. |
| TB-25 | Barney | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine | 4 May 1898 | 3 January 1900 | 28 July 1900 | 21 October 1901 | Renamed CTB-11 on 1 August 1918; sold 19 July 1920. |
| TB-26 | Biddle | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine | 4 May 1898 | 21 February 1900 | 18 May 1901 | 26 October 1901 | Renamed CTB-12 on 1 August 1918; sold 19 July 1920. |
| TB-27 | Blakely | George Lawley & Sons, South Boston, Mass. | 4 May 1898 | 12 January 1899 | 22 November 1900 | 27 December 1904 | Renamed CTB-13 on 1 August 1918; sold 10 March 1920. |
| TB-28 | DeLong | George Lawley & Sons, South Boston, Mass. | 4 May 1898 | 24 January 1899 | 23 November 1900 | 12 October 1902 | Renamed CTB-14 on 1 August 1918; sold 19 July 1920. |
| TB-29 | Nicholson | Lewis Nixon, Elizabethport, N.J. | 4 May 1898 | 6 December 1898 | 23 September 1901 | 10 January 1905 | Stricken 3 March 1909 and used as Target No.6. |
| TB-30 | O'Brien | Lewis Nixon, Elizabethport, N.J. | 4 May 1898 | 29 December 1898 | 24 September 1900 | 15 July 1905 | Stricken 3 March 1909 and used as Target No.5. |
| TB-31 | Shubrick | William R. Trigg Co., Richmond, Va. | 4 May 1898 | 11 March 1899 | 31 October 1899 | 31 May 1901 (first log started 19 November 1901) | Renamed CTB-15 on 1 August 1918; sold 10 March 1920. |
| TB-32 | Stockton | William R. Trigg Co., Richmond, Va. | 4 May 1898 | 18 March 1899 | 27 December 1899 | 14 March 1901 (first log started 14 November 1901) | Stricken 15 November 1913 and sunk as target September 1916. |
| TB-33 | Thornton | William R. Trigg Co., Richmond, Va. | 4 May 1898 | 16 March 1899 | 15 May 1900 | 9 June 1902 | Renamed CTB-16 on 1 August 1918; sold 28 August 1920. |
| TB-34 | Tingey | Columbian Iron Works, Baltimore, Maryland | 4 May 1898 | 29 March 1899 | 25 March 1901 | 7 January 1904 | Renamed CTB-17 on 1 August 1918; sold 10 March 1920. |
| TB-35 | Wilkes | Gas Engine & Power Co., Morris Heights, New York | 4 May 1898 | 3 June 1899 | 28 September 1901 | 18 September 1902 | Stricken 15 November 1913 and sunk as target 1914. |