Difference between revisions of "U.S.S. Alert (1874)"

From The Dreadnought Project
Jump to navigationJump to search
(remove TenureListBegin/End macros... never really going to help)
Line 17: Line 17:
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of U.S.S. ''Alert''" nat="US">{{TenureListBegin|Captain of U.S.S. ''Alert''}}
+
<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of U.S.S. ''Alert''" nat="US">
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Charles Lathrop Huntington|nick=Charles L. Huntington|appt=3 March, 1879{{USOfficerReg1880|p. 11}}|end=June 1881{{USOfficerReg1881|p. 10}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Charles Lathrop Huntington|nick=Charles L. Huntington|appt=3 March, 1879{{USOfficerReg1880|p. 11}}|end=June 1881{{USOfficerReg1881|p. 10}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Louis Kempff|nick=Louis Kempff|appt=18 June, 1881{{USOfficerReg1882|p. 10}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Louis Kempff|nick=Louis Kempff|appt=18 June, 1881{{USOfficerReg1882|p. 10}}}}
Line 30: Line 30:
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LieutUS}}|name=Bruce Livingston Canaga|nick=Bruce L. Canaga|appt=17 February, 1914{{USOfficerReg1915|p. 32}}|end=before 1916{{USOfficerReg1916|p. 30}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LieutUS}}|name=Bruce Livingston Canaga|nick=Bruce L. Canaga|appt=17 February, 1914{{USOfficerReg1915|p. 32}}|end=before 1916{{USOfficerReg1916|p. 30}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LtJGUS}}|name=John Culbertson Thom|nick=John C. Thom|appt=1916{{USOfficerReg1916|p. 52}}{{USOfficerReg1917|p. 52}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LtJGUS}}|name=John Culbertson Thom|nick=John C. Thom|appt=1916{{USOfficerReg1916|p. 52}}{{USOfficerReg1917|p. 52}}}}
{{TenureListEnd}}
 
 
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
 
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
  

Revision as of 20:30, 3 November 2015

U.S.S. Alert (1874)
Hull Number: AS-4
Builder: John Roach & Sons[1]
Ordered: 10 February, 1873[2]
Laid down: September, 1873[3]
Launched: 18 September, 1874[4]
Commissioned: 27 May, 1875[5]
Decommissioned: 9 March, 1922[6]
Sold: 29 July, 1922[7]
Fate: Broken up

U.S.S. Alert was one of three Alert Class gunboats completed for the U.S. Navy.

Service

In early 1916, Alert was stationed in Pearl Harbor, helping to support the operations of four K class submarines.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 78.
  2. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 78.
  3. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 78.
  4. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 78.
  5. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 78.
  6. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
  7. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 78.
  8. Estimates Submitted to the Secretary of the Navy, Volume II, 1916. pp. 1553-4.
  9. Register of Officers, 1880. p. 11.
  10. Register of Officers, 1881. p. 10.
  11. Register of Officers, 1882. p. 10.
  12. Register of Officers, 1884. p. 16.
  13. Register of Officers, 1887. p. 8.
  14. Register of Officers, 1890. p. 10.
  15. Register of Officers, 1892. p. 10.
  16. Register of Officers, 1895. p. 8.
  17. Register of Officers, 1896. p. 10.
  18. Register of Officers, 1898. p. 10.
  19. Register of Officers, 1914. p. 32.
  20. Register of Officers, 1915. p. 32.
  21. Register of Officers, 1915. p. 32.
  22. Register of Officers, 1916. p. 30.
  23. Register of Officers, 1916. p. 52.
  24. Register of Officers, 1917. p. 52.

Bibliography


Alert Class Gunboat
  Alert Ranger  
<– Adams Class Gunboats (US) Yorktown Class –>