NAVYPEDIA

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
PG1	Yorktown	255	Cramp, Philadelphia	5.1887	28.4.1888	4.1889	stricken 9.1921
PG3	Concord	249	NF Palmer, Chester	5.1888	8.3.1890	5.1889 (completed), 2.1891 (commissioned)	stricken 7.1910, reinstated 12.1910, Naval Militia barrack ship 6.1911
PG4	Bennington	250	Delaware River Iron Wks, Chester	6.1888	3.6.1890	6.1891	barge 1906, stricken 9.1910

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1710
Displacement full, t	1921
Length, m	74.5
Breadth, m	11.0
Draught, m	4.27 mean
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 HTE, 4 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	3400
Max speed, kts	16
Fuel, t	coal 370
Endurance, nm(kts)	PG1, 3: 3440(10) PG4: 4260(10)
Armour, mm	CT: 51
Armament	PG1: 6 x 1 - 152/30 Mk III, 2 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 1 - 37/40 Hotchkiss heavy long Mk I PG3: 6 x 1 - 152/35 Mk III, 2 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 1 - 37/40 Hotchkiss heavy long Mk I PG4: 6 x 1 - 152/35 Mk III, 4 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss Mk I, 4 x 1 - 37/40 Hotchkiss heavy long Mk I
Complement	187 - 201

Standard scale images

Project history

Authorized under the Act of 3.3.1885 (Yorktown) and the other two under that of 3.3.87. These ships were originally rigged as three-masted schooners with no head gear, and were classed as cruisers in official British lists resembling the Archer class in some ways. The 152mm guns were in small sponsons, fore and aft on the upper and amidships on the main deck.

Ship protection

there was 51mm protection of CT.

Modernizations

1905, Yorktown: - 2 x 1 - 57/40; + 2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 1 - 37/40 Hotchkiss heavy long Mk I

1905, Bennington: - 4 x 1 - 57/40

1910, Yorktown: - 3 x 1 - 37/40

1910, Concord: + 2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss Mk I

1911, Concord: - 3 x 1 - 152/35, 2 x 1 - 57/40, 2 x 1 - 37/40; + 1 x 1 - 102/40 Mk III/IV/V/VI

1914, Yorktown: - 6 x 1 - 152/30; + 6 x 1 - 127/40 Mk III

1918, Yorktown: - 4 x 1 - 47/40; + 4 x 1 - 57/50 Driggs-Schroeder Mk II/III

Naval service

Bennington had a disastrous burst of two boilers in 1905 and was not recommissioned, while Concord served as an accommodation ship from 1909 to 1914 and then as a quarantine station vessel under the Treasury until 1929.