USS Foote (Torpedo Boat # 3, TB-3), 1897-1920
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[1]USS Foote, a 142-ton torpedo boat built at Baltimore, Maryland, was commissioned in August 1897. The next year, during the Spanish-American War, she was very active off Cuba on blockade, dispatch and bombardment duty. Over the following two decades, Foote was employed along the Atlantic coast and as a Naval Militia training ship. In the First World War, she patrolled out of Charleston, South Carolina. Renamed Coast Torpedo Boat # 1 in August 1918, she was decommissioned in March 1919 and sold in July 1920.
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