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OTHER FIGHTING SHIPS

ANNAPOLIS patrol gunboats

No Name Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
PG10 Annapolis Lewis Nixon, Elizabethport 4/1896 23/12/1896 7/1897 TS 4/1920, miscellaneous auxiliary IX1 7/1921
PG11 Vicksburg Bath Iron Wks 1/1896 5/12/1896 10/1897 Coast Guard miscellaneous auxiliary WIX272 Alexander Hamilton 5/1921
PG12 Newport Bath Iron Wks 1/1896 5/12/1896 10/1897 to Naval Militia 6/1907, naval gunboat 6/1918, civilian TS 7/1918, miscellaneous auxiliary IX19 7/1921
PG13 Princeton J. H. Dialogue, Camden 1896 3/6/1897 5/1898 TS 1/1918, stricken 6/1919

 

Displacement normal, t

1000-1153

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

51.2 wl 62.3 oa

Breadth, m

11.0

Draught, m

3.66 - 3.89

No of shafts

1

Machinery

PG10: VTE, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers

PG11-13: VTE, 2 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

1000

Max speed, kts

11 - 13

Fuel, t

PG10: coal 324

PG11 - 13: coal 235

Endurance, nm (kts)  

Armament

6 x 1 - 102/40 Mk 1/3/4/5/6, 4 x 1 - 57/(30 - 50) Mk 1 - 10, 2 x 1 - 37/(20 - 50) Mk 1 - 12

Complement

135 - 156

   

Ship project history: The last gunboats of the US Navy with sailing rig (it was removed before 1st world war). They had small battle value and served basically for "showing the flag". Composite hull.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significal events.

Vicksburg 1898

Annapolis 1912

 

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