The Dubuque class gunboats were a class of gunboats built by the United States prior to World War I. The class was designed in 1903. The United States Navy commissioned 2 Dubuque-class gunboats in 1903. Dubuques had a design speed of 12 knots, and a main armament of six 4" rapid-fire guns and four 6-pounder rapid-fire guns in single mounts.
Design In 1902, two gunboats, and were ordered from Gas Engine & Power Company & Charles L. Seabury Company of New York for survey and patrol duties in the Caribbean. They were long between perpendiculars and long overall, with an unusual high and rounded bow, fitted with a bowsprit. Beam was with a draft of . Displacement was . The hull was of composite construction, with steel above the waterline and wood below. Two Babcock & Wilcox boilers fed vertical triple-expansion steam engines rated at , driving two shafts and giving a speed of . Two tall and thin funnels were fitted.
Ships Ship Laid down Launched Completed Fate22 September 190315 August 190431 May 1905Sold 19 December 194622 September 190311 October 190431 August 1905Sold 19 December 1946 Purchased by Haganah and renamed Geulah, caught trying to smuggle Jewish refugees to Palestine 2 October 1947. Merchant ship 1948, scrapped 1951.
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