Annapolis Class Gunboat (1896)

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Four Annapolis class gunboats were completed for the United States Navy in 1896-7.

Overview of four vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name Hull No. Builder Laid Down Launched Commissioned Fate
Annapolis PG-10 Lewis Nixon Shipyard 18 April, 1896 23 December, 1896 20 July, 1897 To Pennsylvania 1940
Vicksburg PG-11 Bath I. W. March 1896 5 December, 1896 23 October, 1897 U.S. Coast Guard 2 May, 1921
Newport PG-12 Bath I. W. March 1896 5 December, 1896 5 October, 1897 To Aberdeen, Washington 1934
Princeton PG-13 Dialogue & Son May 1896 3 June, 1897 27 May, 1898 Sold 13 November, 1919

Construction

Armament

As Completed

[1]

  • six 4-inch/40 caliber
  • four 6-pounders
  • two 1-pounders

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 165.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The New Navy 1883-1922. New York: Routledge.
  • Silverstone, Paul H. (2008). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The Navy of World War II, 1922-1947. New York: Routledge.


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