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Machias (PG 5)
ex-Gunboat No. 5


Machias served the U. S. Navy, the Connecticut Naval Militia.


and Mexico.
Machias Class Gunboat: Laid down 4 February 1891 at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; Launched 8 December 1891; Delivered and commissioned USS Machias, Gunboat No. 5, 20 July 1893 at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, NH; Decommissioned 14 August 1900 at Boston Navy Yard, Boston, MA; Recommissioned 24 July 1901; Decommissioned 14 May 1904 at Pensacola, FL; Assigned to the Connecticut Naval Militia 19 October 1907 at New Haven, CT; Withdrawn 25 April 1914; Recommissioned 27 April 1914 at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, NY; Decommissioned 3 October 1919 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA; Designated PG-3, 17 July 1920; Sold to Mexico 29 October 1920 and renamed Agua Prieta; Scrapped in 1935.

Specifications: Displacement 1,177 t; Length 204'; Beam 32' 1"; Draft 14'; Speed 15.5 kts; Complement 154; Armament eight 4" gun mounts, four 6-pounders and four 1-pounders; Propulsion two 2,200hp triple expansion steam engines, two shafts.

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Castine 94k Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine
View of the Yard's waterfront during the 1890s, with a gunboat (either Machias, Gunboat No. 5, or Castine, Gunboat No. 6) alongside. This photograph, published on a postal card, was taken before the ships were lengthened amidships.
Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN (Medical Service Corps), 1973.
U.S. Navy photo NH 78205		 Naval Historical Center
Castine 84k USS Machias (Gunboat No. 5) and USS Castine (Gunboat No. 6)
General appearance plan, with decorated mount, showing the ships' preliminary design. It was presented to the Secretary of the Navy [the Honorable Benjamin F. Tracy] by the Chief Constructor, circa the early 1890s.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation.
U.S. Navy photo NH 99985-A-KN		 Naval Historical Center
Machias 62k Off the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 7 August 1901.
Courtesy of Howard I. Chapelle, Smithsonian Institution.
U.S. Navy photo NH 46902		 Naval Historical Center
Machias 84k c. 1903
Courtesy U.S. Warships of World War I		 Mike Green
Machias 75k Photo probably taken whilst serving with the Connecticut State Naval Militia.
Photo from the 1914 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships		 Robert Hurst
Machias 84k U.S. Navy photo from the 1919 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships Robert Hurst
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