USS Goldsborough (TB-20)

USS Goldsborough (TB-20), in drydock, June 6, 1900.
History
United States
Name:	Goldsborough
Namesake:	Rear Admiral Louis M. Goldsborough
Ordered:	3 March 1897 (authorised)
Builder:	Wolff & Zwicker Iron Works, Portland, OR
Laid down:	14 July 1898
Launched:	29 July 1899
Sponsored by:	Miss Gertrude Ballin
Commissioned:	9 April 1908
Decommissioned:	12 March 1919
Renamed:	Coast Torpedo Boat No. 7, 1 August 1918
Fate:	sold for scrapping, 8 September 1919
General characteristics
Class and type:	Goldsborough-class torpedo boat
Displacement:	255 long tons (259 t)
Length:	198 ft (60 m)
Beam:	20 ft 7 in (6.27 m)
Draft:	6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) (mean)
Installed power:	3 × Thornycroft boilers 6,000 ihp (4,500 kW)
Propulsion:	vertical triple expansion engine 2 × screw propellers
Speed:	27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) 27.4 kn (31.5 mph; 50.7 km/h) (Speed on Trial)
Complement:	59 officers and enslisted
Armament:	4 × 6-pounder (57 mm (2.24 in)) guns 2 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes (2x1)

The first USS Goldsborough (Torpedo Boat No. 20/TB-20/Coast Torpedo Boat No. 7) was a torpedo boat in the United States Navy during World War I. She was named for Louis M. Goldsborough.

Goldsborough was launched 29 July 1899 by the Wolff & Zwicker Iron Works, Portland, Oregon; sponsored by Miss Gertrude Ballin; commissioned in the Puget Sound Navy Yard 9 April 1908, Lieutenant Daniel T. Ghent in command.

Goldsborough based at San Diego, California, as a unit of the Pacific Torpedo Fleet, cruising for 6 years along the coast of California and the Pacific Coast of Mexico in a schedule of torpedo practice, and joint fleet exercises and maneuvers. She was placed in ordinary at the Mare Island Navy Yard 26 March 1914 ; served the Oregon State Naval Militia at Portland (December 1914-April 1917) ; and again fully commissioned 7 April 1917 for Pacific coast patrol throughout World War I.

She was designated Coast Torpedo Boat No. 7 on 1 August 1918, her name being assigned to a new destroyer under construction. The torpedo boat decommissioned in the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, 12 March 1919 and sold for scrapping on 8 September 1919.