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USS Lebanon (AG-2)
ex
 USS Lebanon (Target Towing Ship) (1911 - 1920)
 USS Lebanon (Collier) (1898 - 1909)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
Mexican Service Medal - World War I Victory Medal (with Atlantic Fleet clasp)
Lebanon Class Collier:
  • Laid down, date unknown, at William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Launched in 1894
  • Acquired by the US Navy, 6 April 1898, from Philadelphia and Reading RR. Co.
  • Commissioned, 16 April 1898, USS Lebanon at Boston, MA., LCDR. C. T. Forse in command
  • Decommissioned, 15 April 1899, at Norfolk, VA.
  • Recommissioned, 11 August 1905, at Portsmouth, N.H., CAPT. George McDonald in command
  • Decommissioned, 2 October 1909, at Norfolk, VA.
  • Recommissioned, 1 July 1911, for service as a target towing ship
  • Designated Miscellaneous Auxiliary AG-2, 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned, 6 February 1922, at New York, N.Y.
  • Final Disposition, sold, 2 June1922, fate unknown.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 3,285 t.
    Length 259' 6"
    Beam 37' 5"
    Draft 17' 3"
    Speed 8.5 kts.
    Complement 157
    Armament four 6-pdrs
    Propulsion system unknown
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    Lebanon 81k USS Lebanon in port with "R" type submarines alongside, circa 1919. Among the boats present are USS R-3 (Submarine # 80), second from the left; and USS R-9 (Submarine # 86), second from the from right
    US Navy photo # NH 77275 courtesy of Mrs. C.R. DeSpain, 1973. From the scrapbooks of Fred M. Butler now in the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Lebanon 46k USS Lebanon underway, date and location unknown. Photo from "Jane's Fighting Ships 1914." Robert Hurst
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