U.S.S. Bancroft (1892)

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U.S.S. Bancroft (1892)
Builder: S. L. Moore[1]
Ordered: Act of 7 September, 1888[2]
Laid down: February 1891[3]
Launched: 30 April, 1892[4]
Commissioned: 3 March, 1893[5]
Tranferred: 30 June, 1906[6]
Fate: Revenue Cutter Service
U.S.S. Bancroft was a gunboat completed for the United States Navy in 1893.

Construction

Service

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

As Completed

[7][8]

  • four 4-inch/40 caliber
  • two 6-pounders
  • two 3-pounders
  • one 18-inch torpedo tube[9]

1903

[10]

  • four 4-inch/40 caliber
  • eight 3-pounders

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 68.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 164.
  3. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 68.
  4. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 68.
  5. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 68.
  6. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 68.
  7. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 68.
  8. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 164.
  9. ↑ Silverstone lists one, Conways's lists two.
  10. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 68.

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.


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