Length: 259' 6" overall.
Beam: 22' 3" extreme.
Displacement: 433 long tons normal.
Draft: 9' 5" maximum.
Propulsion machinery: 2 vertical inverted triple-expansion engines; 8,300 ihp; 2 shafts.
Designed speed: 30 knots.
Torpedo battery: 2 x 18-inch torpedo tubes in two trainable single mounts.
Gun battery: 2 x 3-inch/50 caliber rapid fire guns in single pedestal mounts; 6 x 6-pounders.
The trio was regarded as successful. After careers that lasted through World War I, all three were stricken from the Navy list on 15 September 1919 and sold on 3 January 1920 as banana carriers. Whipple was scrapped only in 1956.
Sources: Bauer & Roberts; Naval History & Heritage Command including the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
