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Revision as of 02:11, 11 July 2017

U.S.S. Free Lance (1898)
Hull Number: SP-830
Builder: Lewis Nixon[1]
Purchased: May 1898[2]
Launched: 1895[3]
Commissioned: 12 May, 1898[4]
Decommissioned: 24 August, 1898[5]
Returned: Early 1899[6]
Fate: Mercantile

U.S.S. Free Lance was an armed yacht purchased by the U.S. Navy in 1898 for service in the Spanish-American War.

Construction

Service

Reacquired as SP-830 in 1917.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

[9]

  • nil

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 77.
  2. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 77.
  3. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 77.
  4. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 77.
  5. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 77.
  6. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 77.
  7. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 77.
  8. ↑ List and Station, July 1898. p. 49.
  9. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 77.

Bibliography

  • Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The New Navy 1883-1922. New York: Routledge.


Armed Yacht U.S.S. Free Lance




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