High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The first USS Blakely (Torpedo Boat No. 27/TB-27/Coast Torpedo Boat No. 13) was laid down on 12 January 1899 at South Boston, Massachusetts, by George Lawley Son and launched on 22 November 1900. Sponsored by Miss Nellie M. White; and commissioned on 27 December 1904, with Lieutenant Charles E. Courtney in command.