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USS Hannibal (AG-1)
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USS Hannibal (1898 - 1921)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Alpha - Quebec - Victor
NAQV

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Spanish Campaign Medal - World War I Victory Medal (with Escort Clasp)
Bottom Row - American Defense Service Medal - American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

Built in 1898 as SS Joseph Holland, a Collier, by J. Blumer and Co., Sunderland, Great Britain

Acquired by the US Navy, 16 April 1898

Commissioned as the US Navy Collier USS Hannibal, 7 June 1898, CDR. H. G. Colby in command

Decommissioned, 15 August 1911

Recommissioned, 16 October 1911

Decommissioned in 1920 at Philadelphia, PA.

Recommissioned, 9 February 1921 as USS Hannibal (AG-1)

Decommissioned, 20 August 1944

Struck from the Naval Register. date unknown

Final Disposition, sunk as a bombing target in March 1945

Specifications:
Displacement 4,000 t.
Length 274' 1"
Beam 39' 2"
Draft 17' 7"
Speed 9 kts.
Complement 244
Armament

one 4" gun mount

two 3" guns

eight, .50-cal. machine guns
Propulsion system unknown

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
USS Hannibal
	81k	USS Hannibal probably Hampton Roads, VA., 2 May 1907. US Navy photo # NH 99734 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	US Naval Historical Center
	80k	USS Hannibal at anchor, 2 January 1914, location unknown. US Navy photo # NH 761 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	Fred Weiss
	52k	USS Hannibal at Brest, France, circa 1918-1919 while serving as tender to US Navy Submarine Chasers at Plymouth, England. US Navy photo # NH 64966 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, the Peter K. Connelly collection, courtesy of William H. Davis, 1967.	US Naval Historical Center
	90k	USS Hannibal moored in a Caribbean area harbor, possibly St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, in 1919. US Navy photo # NH 78195 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, courtesy of CDR. Donald J. Robinson, USN (MSC), 1973.	US Naval Historical Center
	79k	USS Hannibal at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, in 1919. US Navy photo # NH 99699 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, collection of George K. Beach USS SC-331.	US Naval Historical Center
USS Hannibal (AG-1)
	108k	*USS Hannibal* (AG-1)** at Philadelphia, PA., getting underway to conduct surveys in Cuban waters during the 1920s. US Navy photo # NH 99719 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, Collection of LeRoy R. Horstman.	US Naval Historical Center
	67k	*USS Hannibal* (AG-1)** at anchor in the 1920s, location unknown. US Navy photo # NH 665 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center	US Naval Historical Center
	67k	*USS Hannibal* (AG-1)** at anchor in the Caribbean while engaged in survey work during the early 1920s. US Navy photo # NH 99700 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, collection of LeRoy R. Horstman.	US Naval Historical Center
	109k	*US Hannibal* (AG-1) at anchor in the Caribbean while engaged in survey work during the early 1920s. Hannibal** has a barge and the two submarine chasers alongside. Outboard subchaser is USS SC-353 and the other is probably USS SC-223. Both worked with *Hannibal* on survey work. US Navy photo # NH 99701 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, collection of LeRoy R. Horstman.	US Naval Historical Center
	98k	*USS Hannibal* (AG-1)** at anchor, April 1924, location unknown. US Navy photo # NH 63541 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	US Naval Historical Center
	53k	*USS Hannibal* (AG-1)** at Philadelphia Navy Yard, with her officers and crew posing on the deck, circa late 1920. Panoramic photograph taken by E.E. Hildebrandt, Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadelphia. US Navy photo # NH 103195, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	Robert Hurst
	86k	*USS Hannibal* (AG-1)** anchored at Bahia Honda, Panama, 3 February 1934. US Navy photo # NH 53627 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center	US Naval Historical Center
	22k	*USS Hannibal* (AG-1)** underway, circa 1943, location unknown. US Navy photo.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
	77k	*USS Hannibal* (AG-1)** at anchor, date and location unknown. US Navy photo.	Robert Hurst