USS ''Foote'' (Torpedo Boat No. 3/TB-3/Coast Torpedo Boat No. 1) was launched 1 October 1896 by
Columbian Iron Works and Dry Dock Co. The Columbian Iron Works and Dry Dock Company (1872–1899), was located in Baltimore, Maryland on the Locust Point, Baltimore, Locust Point peninsula, adjacent to Fort McHenry. Founded by William T. Malster (1843–1907) who later partnered ...
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Baltimore, Md.; sponsored by Miss Laura Price; and commissioned 7 August 1897, Lieutenant
W. L. Rodgers in command.
After training out of
Charleston, S.C., ''Foote'' joined the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron at
Key West, Fla., 19 March 1898. In the subsequent
Spanish–American War she served as picket, patrolled, and carried orders from the flagship to ships of the squadron, and from 23 April, patrolled the Cuban coast closely, primarily off the
Cardenas entrance to
Havana Harbor. On that day, she penetrated the harbor to scout shipping, was fired upon by a clearly weaker Spanish small gunboat, and she retired.
Six days later, she herself bombarded
Morro Island. Several times during the summer, she returned to
Key West
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to load mail, stores, and despatches for the squadron off Havana, and on 14 August she returned to Charleston, S.C.. ''Foote'' was out of commission at
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from 28 October 1898 to 9 November 1900, then operated in the Newport-Boston area until placed in reserve at
Norfolk 6 March 1901. In 1908 she moved to Charleston.
Detached from the Reserve Torpedo Flotilla 8 June 1910, ''Foote'' based on Charleston for the next year, putting to sea only for a 3-week cruise early in 1911. From 27 June 1911 to 15 November 1916, she was assigned to the
North Carolina Naval Militia
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, based at New Bern, then lay at Charleston until returned to full commission 7 April 1917. Through
World War I, ''Foote'' patrolled the coast of the 6th Naval District; renamed ''Coast Torpedo Boat No. 1'' 1 August 1918. She was decommissioned at
Philadelphia 28 March 1919, and sold 19 July 1920.
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Torpedo boats of the United States Navy
Ships built in Baltimore
1896 ships