Annapolis Class Gunboat (1896)

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	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

Armament

As Completed

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

See Also

• Wikipedia

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.