USS Blakely (TB-27) underway off Grant's Tomb during the 1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration
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United States | |
Name | Blakely |
Namesake | Johnston Blakeley |
Ordered | 4 May 1898 authorised |
Builder | George Lawley & Son, South Boston, MA |
Laid down | 12 January 1899 |
Launched | 22 November 1900 |
Commissioned | 27 December 1904 |
Decommissioned | 8 March 1919 |
Renamed | Coast Torpedo Boat No. 13, 1 August 1918 |
Stricken | 31 March 1919 |
Fate | Sold, 10 March 1920 |
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Class and type | Blakely-class torpedo boat |
Displacement | 196 long tons (199 t)[2] |
Length | 175 ft (53 m) |
Beam | 17 ft 8 in (5.38 m) |
Draft | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) (mean)[2] |
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Complement | 28 officers and enlisted |
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The first USS Blakely (Torpedo Boat No. 27/TB-27/Coast Torpedo Boat No. 13) was laid down on 12 January 1899 at South Boston, Massachusetts, by George Lawley & Son and launched on 22 November 1900. Sponsored by Miss Nellie M. White; and commissioned on 27 December 1904. It was named for Johnston Blakeley, commander of USS Wasp.
Blakely completed dock trials at the Boston Navy Yard and then moved to Newport, Rhode Island, where she fitted out with ordnance and electrical equipment at the torpedo station and underwent various tests and inspections.
On 6 April 1917, the day the United States joined the Allies in World War I, Blakely was placed back in commission. Assigned to the Patrol Force and based at New London, Connecticut, she patrolled the waters of the 1st and 2d Naval Districts. In August 1918, her name was canceled and reassigned to a new Wickes-class destroyer then under construction.
For the remainder of her career, the warship was known as Coast Torpedo Boat No. 13. In January 1919, she was ordered to the Philadelphia Navy Yard for inactivation. She was decommissioned for the last time on 8 March 1919, and her name was struck from the Navy list on 7 October 1919. She was sold to the U.S. Rail & Salvage Corp., Newburgh, New York, on 10 March 1920.