title: USS Nicholson (TB-29)
text: # USS Nicholson (TB-29)
  
  USS Nicholson (TB-29) was a Blakely-class torpedo boat in the United States Navy.
  
  ## Built in Elizabeth, New Jersey
  
  The first ship to be so named by the Navy, Nicholson (TB–29) was laid down 6 December 1898 by Lewis Nixon's Crescent Shipyard, Elizabethport, New Jersey; launched 23 September 1901; sponsored by Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont; and commissioned at New York City 10 January 1905.
  
  ## Service with the U.S. Navy
  
  Nicholson served with the Atlantic Fleet until struck from the Navy List 3 March 1909.
  
  ## Inactivation
  
  Nicholson was disposed of by being used as a target.
  
  