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USS Boxer (IV)

Brigantine Rigged Training Ship:

Built, date unknown, at Navy Yard Portsmouth, N.H.

Launched, 11 October 1904

Commissioned USS Boxer, LT Hilary H. Royall, in command

Initially assigned to duty Naval Training Station, Newport, R.I. to train landsmen and apprentices

Reassigned, 20 October 1912 to the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD.

Reassigned, 25 June 1914, to Naval Training Station, Newport, R.I.

Decommissioned, 14 May 1920, and transferred to the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education in Alaska

Acquired by the US Army Corps of Engineers, date unknown

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement 345.6 t.
Length 125' 4"
Beam 29' 9"
Draft 9' 2"
Speed unknown
Complement 64
Armament none
Propulsion sail

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
627k	Post card image of USS Boxer IV underway, date and location unknown.	Tommy Trampp
259k	Two versions of the same post card image of USS Boxer IV under sail near the Naval Training Station, Newport, R.I., circa 1907. © W. B. Childs, Newport.	Tommy Trampp and Arnold Putnam
263k		Tommy Trampp and Arnold Putnam
314k	Ex-USS Boxer IV in Army service as a barge at Seattle, WA. *Boxer* apparently lost her mainmast and spars before the Army acquired her, leaving little evidence of the handsome brigantine she once was. Photo Corps of Engineers, Seattle District. Photos and text from "U.S. Army Ships and Watercraft of World War II" by David H. Grover	Robert Hurst

USS Boxer IV
DANFS history entry located at the US Naval History and Heritage Command

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