.jpg) USS Goldsborough (TB-20), in drydock, 6 June 1900.
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| History | |
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 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 |
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| Fate | Sold for scrapping, 8 September 1919 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type | Goldsborough-class torpedo boat |
| Displacement | 255 long tons (259 t)[2] |
| Length | 198 ft (60 m) |
| Beam | 20 ft 7 in (6.27 m) |
| Draft | 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) (mean)[2] |
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| Complement | 59 officers and enslisted |
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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.
Goldsborough based at San Diego, California, as a unit of the Pacific Torpedo Fleet, cruising for six 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 and training new sailors 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.
