USS Barney (TB-25)

	USS Barney (TB-25) at Camden, New Jersey, in 1908.
History
United States
Name	Barney
Namesake	Commodore Joshua Barney
Ordered	4 May 1898 authorized
Builder	Bath, ME
Laid down	3 January 1900
Launched	28 July 1900
Sponsored by	Miss Esther Nicholson Barney, great-granddaughter of Commodore Joshua Barney
Commissioned	21 October 1901
Decommissioned	11 March 1919
Renamed	Coast Torpedo Boat No. 11,; 1 August 1918;
Stricken	28 October 1919
Identification	TB-25
Fate	Sold, 19 July 1920
General characteristics
Class and type	Bagley-class torpedo boat
Displacement	175 long tons (178 t)
Length	157 ft (48 m)
Beam	17 ft 7 in (5.36 m)
Draft	4 ft 11 in (1.50 m) (mean)
Installed power	2 × Normand boilers; 4,200 ihp (3,100 kW);
Propulsion	vertical triple expansion engine; 2 × screw propellers;
Speed	29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph); 29.04 kn (33.42 mph; 53.78 km/h) (Speed on Trial);
Complement	29 officers and enlisted
Armament	3 × 1-pounder (37 mm (1.46 in)) guns; 3 × 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes (3x1);

The first USS Barney (Torpedo Boat No. 25/TB-25/Coast Torpedo Boat No. 11) was laid down on 3 January 1900 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works; launched on 28 July 1900 and sponsored by Miss Esther Nicholson Barney, great-granddaughter of Commodore Joshua Barney; and placed in commission at the Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island, on 21 October 1901.

On 6 November 1901, the torpedo boat put to sea for a voyage to Port Royal, South Carolina but upon her arrival there, went into reserve. The following year, she returned to active service on the North Atlantic station and participated in maneuvers and exercises along the eastern seaboard and in the West Indies. On 19 February 1903, Barney was placed in reserve at Norfolk, Virginia. As a unit of the Reserve Torpedo Flotilla between 1903 and 1908, she remained inactive there but for brief periods underway to check out her machinery and torpedo equipment.

On 1 July 1908, the torpedo boat returned to full commission and cruised off the east coast as a unit of the 3d Torpedo Flotilla. On 18 October 1908 she had a minor collision in dense fog with

Philadelphia Navy Yard. On 9 March 1916, she was placed in ordinary at Philadelphia

; and, on 21 November, she was decommissioned.

Towed to Charleston, South Carolina, in May 1917, the torpedo boat was recommissioned there on 1 September 1917. Soon thereafter, Barney moved to Norfolk where she served as a patrol vessel in the lower reaches of

Navy list on 28 October 1919 and she was sold to the U.S. Rail and Salvage Company, Newburgh, New York

, on 19 July 1920.

References

^ "USS Barney (TB-25)". Navsource.org. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Table 11 - Ships on Navy List June 30, 1919". Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office: 725. 1921.
^ "Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1909". Penn State University. Retrieved 27 December 2019.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
Additional technical data from Gardiner, Robert (1979). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Conway Maritime Press. p. 161.
ISBN 0-85177-133-5
.

External links

Photo gallery of Barney at NavSource Naval History

[1] "USS Barney (TB-25)". Navsource.org. Retrieved 19 July 2015.

[congress-2] "Table 11 - Ships on Navy List June 30, 1919". Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office: 725. 1921.

[3] "Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1909". Penn State University. Retrieved 27 December 2019.

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Bagley-class torpedo boats
United States Navy	Bagley Barney Biddle
Preceded by: Manley class Followed by: Blakely class
List of torpedo boats of the United States Navy