USS Stringham (TB-19)

USS Stringham (Torpedo Boat No. 19) at the Jamestown Naval Review, 1907.
History
United States
Name:	Stringham
Namesake:	Rear Admiral Silas H. Stringham
Ordered:	3 March 1897 (authorised)
Builder:	Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wilmington, DE
Laid down:	21 March 1898
Launched:	10 June 1899
Sponsored by:	Miss Edwina Stringham Creighton
Commissioned:	7 November 1905
Decommissioned:	21 November 1913
Struck:	26 November 1913
Identification:	TB-19
Fate:	sold, 18 May 1923, to E. L. Hurst of Roanoke Dock for scrapping
General characteristics
Class and type:	Stringham-class torpedo boat
Displacement:	340 long tons (345 t)
Length:	232 ft 4 in (70.82 m)
Beam:	22 ft (6.7 m)
Draft:	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) (mean)
Installed power:	4 × Thornycroft boilers 7,300 ihp (5,400 kW)
Propulsion:	vertical triple expansion engine 2 × screw propellers
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) 25.33 kn (29.15 mph; 46.91 km/h) (Speed on Trial)
Complement:	59 officers and enlisted
Armament:	4 × 6-pounder (57 mm (2.24 in)) guns 2 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes (2x1)

USS Stringham (Torpedo Boat No. 19/TB-19) was a steel torpedo boat in the United States Navy. Stringham was named for Silas H. Stringham, who served in the United States Navy from the War of 1812 through the American Civil War.

Stringham was launched on 10 June 1899 by Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wilmington, DE; sponsored by Miss Edwina Stringham Creighton; and was placed in reduced commission on 7 November 1905, Lt. Albert H. McCarthy commanding.

Assigned to the Reserve Torpedo Flotilla at Annapolis, MD, upon completion, Stringham was placed in full commission on 30 October 1906 and assigned to the 3d Torpedo Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet. Stringham operated on the eastern seaboard between Key West, FL and Cape Cod, MA, into 1907. Detached on 11 October 1907 from the Atlantic Fleet, Stringham was placed in reserve, in reduced commission, on 31 January 1908 at the Norfolk Navy Yard.

Placed in full commission again on 1 July 1908, Stringham rejoined the 3d Torpedo Flotilla. She operated primarily out of Newport, RI, through October; then proceeded to Charleston, SC, where she was placed in reserve on 19 November 1908. Recommissioned on 14 August 1909, Stringham was assigned duty as flagship of the 3d Division, Atlantic Torpedo Flotilla, on 9 September. During October, she participated with units of the Atlantic Fleet in the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, steaming up the Hudson as far as Albany, NY, on 8 October. Returning south to Charleston, Stringham was again placed in reserve on 30 November.