Photo #: S-584-092
Preliminary Design Plan for a Gunboat ... November 1915
Preliminary design plan for a gunboat prepared for the Navy Department
during the development of the Fiscal Year 1917 program. This
design was prepared to illustrate the product of the design characteristics
already approved by the Navy Department and being reflected in
contract plans and specifications already commenced in an effort
to meet urgent construction timetables for Asheville (Gunboat
# 21) of the Fiscal Year 1916 program.
This plan provides three 4-inch guns, steam propulsion machinery,
and a sustained speed of 12 knots in a ship 225 feet long on
the water line, 40 feet 9 inches in beam, with a normal displacement
of 1,575 tons. Tulsa (Gunboat # 22) of Fiscal Year 1918
also was built as an eventual product of this preliminary design
work, though modified, like Asheville, in certain details.
Note: The original document was ink on linen (black on
white).
The original plan is in the 1911-1925 "Spring Styles Book".
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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