Picket boat

A picket boat is a type of small naval craft. These are used for harbor patrol and other close
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inshore work, and have often been carried by larger warships as a ship's boat. They range in boat cirpca 1920s.png
size between 30 and 55 feet. US Coast Guard 36-foot
(11 m) open cockpit picket
Patrol boats, or any craft engaged in sentinel duty, are sometimes referred to as picket boats, boat of the 1920s
using "picket" in the generic sense, even if much lar
ger than actual picket boats.

Contents
United States
Britain
Germany
See also
References

United States
The Union's 45-foot (14 m) long steam-powered Picket Boat Number One sank the Confederate ironclad Albemarle in 1864.
(Although named "Picket Boat", this craft has also been called a steam launch). The boat was armed with a 12-pounder Dahlgren gun
and a spar torpedo, of which the latter was employed in sinking the Albemarle.[1][2] The Union's Potomac Flotilla also employed
some picket boats.

A number of American warships of the 19th century carried picket boats, such as the USS Vulcan (her picket boat was heavily
engaged by Spanish small-caliber shore fire during one incident in theSpanish–American War), and others.

In the early 1920s, during Prohibition, the United States Coast Guard built a fleet of picket boats to intercept rum runners,
supplementing the larger and more seaworthycutters and patrol boats. These boats were about 36 feet (11 m) long, had no main fixed
armament, and cost aboutUS$8,800 (about $125,661[3] in 2017 dollars) to build.[4]

ge main armament.[5]
A later picket boat, built between 1932 and 1943, was 38 feet (12 m) long and also had no lar

Britain
A long-serving 19th-century British picket boat, carried on capital ships, was a 50-foot (15 m) model introduced in 1867 which saw
wide service in World War I and even some limited service in World War II. The typical main armament during most of this boat's
service life was a Hotchkiss 3–pounder, adopted by the Royal Navy in 1886.[6]

British pre-dreadnoughts, includingHMS Majestic and HMS Triumph, carried picket boats.[7]

The P1000 Class Picket Boat is a current British Royal Navy boat, 42 feet (13 m) in length, formerly carried on destroyers but now
used only for training.[8]
 A British 56-foot (17 m) picket boat,
returning to its mothership (HMS
Triumph) after participating in action
on April 18, 1915

Germany
The Königsberg–class cruisers of 1905 and 1915 carried a picket boat; the Königsbergs of 1927 carried two. The Dresden class of a
similar era carried one, as did theWiesbaden–class.

Larger ships also carried picket boats: The Nassau–, König–, and Bayern–class battleships, the SMS Seydlitz, and the Derfflinger–
class battlecruisers all carried one each.

See also
Launch, a type which overlaps somewhat with picket boats
Radar picket, a larger ship or submarine, used to extend the range of radar coverage.

References
1. Gary P. Priolo. "Picket Boat Number One"(http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/86/86361.htm). NavSource Naval
History – NavSource Online: "Old Navy" Ship Photo Archive. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
2. "MS2261 – USN Picket Boat #1"(http://castyouranchorhobby.com/Item/MS2261). Cast Your Anchor Hobby website.
Retrieved December 28, 2015.
3. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Community Development Project. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–"
(https://www.minneapolisfed.org/community/financial-and-economic-education/cpi-calculator-information/consumer-p
rice-index-1800). Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
4. "36–Foot Picket Boat (Open–Cockpit and Double–Cabin)"(https://www.uscg.mil/history/cutters/boats/docs/36FootPic
ketBoats.pdf) (PDF). United States Coast Guard. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
5. Tim Dring. "Cabin Picket Boat (38ft.)"(http://www.trdring.com/cabin-picket-boat-38ft.html). U.S. Life-Saving Service
and U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Craft History. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
6. Richard Kemp. "New 28mm Royal Navy Picket Boat from HLBS"(http://theminiaturespage.com/news/798240). The
Miniatures Page. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
7. Stapleton, N. B. J. (1980).Steam Picket Boats and Other Small Steam Craft of the Royal Navy
. UK: Dalton. ISBN 0-
900963-63-8.
8. James Saumarez (December 2010)."Power Boat Training At Britannia Royal Naval College" (http://www.swmaritim
e.org.uk/article.php?articleid=1624&atype=a). SW Soundings. South West Maritime History Society. Retrieved
December 28, 2015.

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