n item referred to the magazine Army and Naval Journal reporting that the Maine and the Texas would be each fitted out with two torpedo boats. These torpedo boats had a displacement of 15 ton and as main dimensions 60’x 9’ Their quadruple expansion engines and artificial draught tube boilers supplied 200 hp allowing a speed of 18 miles. The coal bunker capacity was 5 ton.
Notes
1. Armoured cruiser or 2nd class pre dreadnought battleship. Laid down at the New York Naval Shipyard at Brooklyn on 17 October 1888, on 18 November two years later launched and sunk after an explosion on 15 February 1898 finally resulting in the war between the USA and Spain.
2. Pre dreadnought battleship. Laid down at the Norfolk Navy Yard on 1 June 1889, launched on 28 June 1892, renamed San Marcos on 15 February 1911, sunk as gunnery target on 21-22 March 1912 and broken up in 1959.
