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Vicksburg 1898

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
PG10	Annapolis	18	Lewis Nixon, Elizabethport	4.1896	23.12.1896	7.1897	TS 4.1920, miscellaneous auxiliary IX1 7.1921
PG11	Vicksburg	15	Bath Iron Wks	1.1896	5.12.1896	10.1897	Coast Guard miscellaneous auxiliary WIX272 Alexander Hamilton 5.1921
PG12	Newport	16	Bath Iron Wks	1.1896	5.12.1896	10.1897	to Naval Militia 6.1907, gunboat 6.1918, civilian TS 7.1918, miscellaneous auxiliary IX19 7.1921
PG13	Princeton	340	J. H. Dialogue, Camden	1896	3.6.1897	5.1898	TS 1.1918, stricken 6.1919

Technical data

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: 1 VTE, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers PG11-13: 1 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 III/IV/V/VI, 4 x 1 - 57/50 Driggs-Schroeder Mk II/III, 2 x 1 - 37/40 Driggs-Schroeder heavy Mk I
Complement	135 - 156

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Project history

Authorized under the Act of 2.3.95. Originally barquentine-rigged with a clipper bow and long bowsprit, this class consisted of composite-built vessels, rated as sloops in British lists. The 102mm were mounted fore and aft on the upper deck with four amidships on the main deck.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Annapolis served as a training ship from 1920 onwards, as did Newport from 1907 to 1931. Vicksburg was renamed Alexander Hamilton by the Coast Guard.