ABSTRACT
Name Builder Laid Down Launched Comm.
Stiletto Herreshoff 1885 1886 Jul 1887
Displacement 31 tons
Dimensions 88’6” (wl) x 11’ x 3’
Machinery 1 screw, vertical, Almy watertube boiler, IHP 359, 18.2 knots
Complement 5
Armament 2 Howell TT
Notes: Built as a yacht and purchased as an experimental boat 1887. Wood hull. First torpedo boat capable of launching self-propelled torpedoes.
