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

From The Dreadnought Project
Jump to: navigation, search
(remove TenureListBegin/End macros... never really going to help)
(Captains: Added Frederick Rodgers)
Line 18: Line 18:
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of U.S.S. ''Adams''" nat="US">
 
<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of U.S.S. ''Adams''" nat="US">
 +
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Frederick Rodgers|nick=Frederick Rodgers|appt=1877{{USOfficerReg1878|pp. 16-17}}|end=August, 1879<ref>''Evening Star'' (Washington, DC) 29 July, 1879 p. 1.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Edgar Clarence Merriman|nick=Edgar C. Merriman|appt=11 April, 1881{{USOfficerReg1882|p. 10}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Edgar Clarence Merriman|nick=Edgar C. Merriman|appt=11 April, 1881{{USOfficerReg1882|p. 10}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Louis Kempff|nick=Louis Kempff|appt=20 October, 1885{{USOfficerReg1887|p. 8}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Louis Kempff|nick=Louis Kempff|appt=20 October, 1885{{USOfficerReg1887|p. 8}}}}

Revision as of 23:37, 1 March 2022

U.S.S. Adams (1874)
Builder: Donald McKay
at Portsmouth Navy Yard[1]
Ordered: 10 February, 1873[2]
Laid down: Feb, 1874[3]
Launched: 24 Oct, 1874[4]
Commissioned: 21 Jul, 1876[5]
Decommissioned: 5 Aug, 1919[6]
Sold: 5 Aug, 1920[7]
Fate: Mercantile 1920[8]
U.S.S. Adams was one of five Adams Class gunboats completed for the U.S. Navy.

Service

By 1899, she was serving as a training ship.

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 77.
  2. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 77.
  3. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 77.
  4. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 77.
  5. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 77.
  6. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 3.
  7. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
  8. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
  9. Register of Officers, 1878. pp. 16-17.
  10. Evening Star (Washington, DC) 29 July, 1879 p. 1.
  11. Register of Officers, 1882. p. 10.
  12. Register of Officers, 1887. p. 8.
  13. Register of Officers, 1890. p. 8.
  14. Register of Officers, 1900. p. 12.
  15. Register of Officers, 1904. p. 14.
  16. Register of Officers, 1905. p. 14.
  17. Register of Officers, 1904. p. 14.
  18. Register of Officers, 1905. p. 14.

Bibliography


Adams Class Gunboat
Adams Alliance Enterprise Essex Nipsic
<– Mohongo Class Gunboats (US) Alert Class –>