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Yorktown (PG 1)
ex-Gunboat No. 1

Yorktown Class Gunboat: Laid down, 14 May 1887 by William Cramp and Sons' Shipyard, Philadelphia, PA; Launched, 28 April 1888; Commissioned USS Yorktown (Gunboat No. 1), 23 April 1889 at the League Island (Philadelphia) Navy Yard; Decommissioned, 8 December 1897 at Mare Island, CA; Recommissioned, 17 November 1898; Decommissioned 17 June 1903 at Mare Island; Recommissioned, 1 October 1906; Decommissioned, 16 July 1912 for alterations at Mare Island; Recommissioned, 1 April 1913; Decommissioned, 12 June 1919 at Mare Island; Designated PG-1, 17 July 1920; Sold 30 September 1921 to the Union Hide Co. of Oakland, CA. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 1,910 t; Length 244' 5"; Beam 36'; Draft 14'; Speed 16.14 kts; Complement 191; Armament six 6" breech-loading rifles, four 3-pounders, four 1-pounders, two 30-carronade machine guns; Propulsion, steam and sail, two shafts.

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Yorktown 62k . Tom Kermen
Yorktown 65k c. 1895 Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center
Yorktown 179k c. 1895
Broadside view of the Yorktown at Acapulco, Mexico.
U.S. Navy photo PG 1 01-2-1895		 Darryl Baker
Yorktown 270k Yorktown's figurehead taken at Mare Island in 1903.
U.S. Navy photo PG 1 001-1903		 Darryl Baker
Yorktown 104k Boardside view of Yorktown at Mare Island in 1903. The stern of the U.S. Fishing Commission steamer Albatross can be seen forward of Yorktown.
U.S. Navy photo PG 1 002-1903		 Darryl Baker
Bennington 180k Broadside view of Bennington (Gunboat No. 4) at Mare Island in the spring of 1903. Yorktown
is inboard.
U.S. Navy photo PG 4 004-10-1905		 Original photo: Naval Historical Center
Replacement photo: Darryl Baker
Bennington 238k Bow view of USS Bennington (Gunboat No. 4) at Mare Island in the spring of 1903. The Yorktown is inboard.
U.S. Navy photo PG 4 002-10-1905		 Darryl Baker
Bennington 228k Stern view of USS Bennington (Gunboat No. 4) at Mare Island in the spring of 1903. The Yorktown is inboard.
U.S. Navy photo PG 4 003-10-1905		 Darryl Baker
Yorktown 188k Stern of Yorktown at Mare Island sea wall 8 June 1903.
U.S. Navy photo PG 1 004-1903		 Darryl Baker
Yorktown 137k Bow view of Yorktown moored in Mare Island channel in 1903.
U.S. Navy photo PG 1 006-1903		 Darryl Baker
Yorktown 183k Broadside view of Yorktown in Mare Island channel in 1903.
U.S. Navy photo PG 1 008-1903		 Darryl Baker
Yorktown 152k This photo dated 1903 but believe it is a photo of the recommissioning ceremonies aboard Yorktown in 1906 at Mare Island.
U.S. Navy photo PG 1 005-1903		 Darryl Baker
Yorktown 209k View of Yorktown in Dry Dock No. 1 at Mare Island in 1917. Shipyard records indicate she was in dock with USS Chattanooga (C 16) from 23 - 28 March 1917.
U.S. Navy photo PG 1 001-1917		 Darryl Baker
Yorktown 107k c. April 2007
USS Yorktown [CV 10] Museum, Charleston, SC
Bell from Yorktown (PG 1)		 Robert Hall
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