USS Craven (TB-10)

USS Craven (TB-10), Biddle and Barney washed ashore at Charleston Navy Yard by a hurricane on August 28, 1911.
History
United States
Namesake:	Commander Tunis Craven
Ordered:	10 June 1896 (authorized)
Builder:	Bath Iron Works, Bath, ME
Laid down:	6 December 1897
Launched:	25 September 1899
Sponsored by:	Miss A. Craven, granddaughter of Commander Craven
Commissioned:	9 June 1900
Decommissioned:	14 November 1913
Identification:	TB-10
Fate:	used as target
General characteristics [1]
Class and type:	Dahlgren-class torpedo boat
Displacement:	146 long tons (148 t)[2]
Length:	151 ft 4 in (46.13 m)
Beam:	16 ft 5 in (5.00 m)
Draft:	4 ft 7 in (1.40 m) (mean)[2]
Installed power:	2 × Normand boilers 4,200 ihp (3,132 kW)
Propulsion:	vertical triple expansion engines 2 × screw propellers
Speed:	31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph) 30 kn (35 mph; 56 km/h) (Speed on Trial)[2]
Complement:	29 officers and enlisted
Armament:	4 × 1-pounder (37 mm (1.46 in)) guns 2 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes (2x1)

The first USS Craven (Torpedo Boat Destroyer No. 10/TB-10), was launched 25 September 1899 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; sponsored by Miss A. Craven, granddaughter of Commander Craven; and commissioned 9 June 1900, Lieutenant J. R. Edie in command.

Sailing from Portsmouth Navy Yard 19 June 1900, Craven reported to the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport 21 June and served there until 2 December when she returned to Portsmouth. She was placed out of commission there 5 December 1900.

Recommissioned 24 October 1902, Craven served at the Torpedo Station at Newport until 12 December 1903 when she sailed to New York Navy Yard. She was placed out of commission again 22 December 1903. Except for service with the Torpedo Station in 1906 and 1907, she remained out of commission until 14 December 1907 when she was assigned to the Reserve Torpedo Flotilla at Norfolk Navy Yard. In 1908 she was transferred to Charleston, South Carolina, where she was decommissioned 14 November 1913 and used as a target.

References

1. "USS Craven (TB-10)". Navsource.org. Retrieved July 9, 2015.
2. "Table 10 - Ships on Navy List June 30, 1919". Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office: 714. 1921.

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
• Additional technical data from Gardiner, Robert (1979). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Conway Maritime Press. p. 160. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.

External links

• Photo gallery of Craven at NavSource Naval History