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UNITED STATES NAVY DEPARTMENT
BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR
"SPRING STYLES," 1911-1925

Photo # S-584-186: 'Shallow Draft Gunboat - Tunnel Stern Type' - July 1923

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Bureau of Ships' "Spring Styles" Book # 1 (1911-1925) -- (Naval Historical Center Lot # S-584) --
Patrol and Mine Warfare Vessel Preliminary Design Drawings

Fourteen designs for gunboats and patrol vessels and one design for a minesweeper are included in the total of 211 drawings in the 1911-1925 "Spring Styles" Book. The gunboat designs include two designs for classical cruising gunboats, in effect small cruisers, and eight post-World War I designs for a new class of shallow draught gunboats for operations along Chinese rivers. There are four designs for small anti-submarine warfare patrol vessels, developed during World War I in response to the threat from German submarines. Finally, there is one drawing of a seagoing minesweeper that appears to represent the design selected for construction of the numerous Lapwing (or so-called "Bird" class) vessels of 1917.

This page features those 1911-1925 Bureau of Ships "Spring Styles" plans that concern patrol and mine warfare vessels.

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The Patrol Vessel drawings included in this album are:

--One proposed design for a gunboat, not selected for construction:

--One proposed design for the Gunboat Tulsa:

--Seven proposed designs for River Gunboats for Chinese waters, none of which were selected for construction:

--The preliminary design selected as a basis for construction of the Guam, Luzon, and Panay class River Gunboats:

--Two proposed designs for the "Eagle" class Submarine Chasers:

--Two proposed designs for a 123-foot Submarine Chaser, not selected for construction:

The Mine Warfare Vessel drawing included in this album is:

--One drawing illustrating the Lapwing class Minesweeper design:



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