Model No. 403: Talbot and Gwin

Model No. 403


Model by: NGH
Made when: September 1896
Stated model scale: 1/24
Model length (ca.): 50.6" (128.6cm)
Implied vessel LOA at 1/24 (ca.): 101' 3" (30.9m)
Power/Sail: P
Vessel Type: Navy Steam Torpedo Boat
Model location: H.M.M. Model Room West Wall Left

Vessels from this model:
2 built, modeled by NGH
#191p Talbot (1898)
#192p Gwin (1898)

Original text on model:
"Strs 191 and 192 (US Torpedo boats 15 & 16) measured Dec. 19, 1896
GWIN and TALBOT 100 ft Torpedo boat for 20 knt Sept. 1896 scale 1/2" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)

Model description:
"100' loa Talbot & Gwin, steam powered torpedo boats of 1897." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)


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