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Castine (PG 6)
ex-Gunboat No. 6

Machias Class Gunboat: Laid down 4 February 1891 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; Launched 11 May 1892; Delivered 16 October 1893; Commissioned USS Castine, Gunboat No. 6, 22 October 1894; Decommissioned 8 October 1901 at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA; Recommissioned 13 November 1903; Decommissioned 23 September 1905 at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, NH; Recommissioned 5 October 1908; Decommissioned 28 August 1919 at New Orleans Navy Yard, New Orleans, LA; Designated PG-6, 17 July 1920; Sold 5 August 1921 and converted to a Banana Boat; Sunk by collision in the Mississippi River 12 December 1924.

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, and sail.

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Castine 145k At anchor.
U.S. Navy photo		 Joe Radigan
Castine 82k Photographed in a harbor.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.
U.S. Navy photo NH 67522		 Naval Historical Center
Castine 94k Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine
View of the Yard's waterfront during the 1890s, with a gunboat (either Machias, Gunboat 5, or Castine) 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 Castine
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
Castine 84k Unofficial outboard profile and deck plans, published in the Transactions of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, 1893.
U.S. Navy photo NH 70048		 Naval Historical Center
Castine 89k USS Machias Gunboat No. 5, or Castine. Photographed during the Spanish-American War, 1898.
U.S. Navy photo NH 66577		 Naval Historical Center
Castine 80k Underway in harbor in 1898, during or shortly after the Spanish-American War. Copied from "The New Navy of the United States", by N.L. Stebbins, (New York, 1912).
Donation of David Shadell, 1987.
U.S. Navy photo NH 99961		 Naval Historical Center
Castine 106k Color-tinted postal card of a photograph taken circa 1905 at Pensacola, Florida, by Enrique Muller. It was published by the American News Company, of New York City.
Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN (Retired), 1983.
U.S. Navy photo NH 101247-KN		 Naval Historical Center
Castine 82k In drydock at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, circa 1905-1908, while out of commission. USS Topeka (1898-1930), also out of commission, is astern of Castine.
Collection of Harry Gilfillan.
U.S. Navy photo NH 94009		 Naval Historical Center
Castine 84k At the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, in February 1911. Three submarines are tied up to her starboard side and USS Severn (1900-1916, ex-Chesapeake) is between Castine and
the wharf.
Collection of Chief Boatswain's Mate John E. Lynch, USN. Donated by his son, Robert J. Lynch, in April 2000.
U.S. Navy photo NH 102764		 Naval Historical Center
Castine 22k Photo from the 1914 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships Robert Hurst
Castine 54k Among the breakers off Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, while escaping from the tidal waves that wrecked USS Memphis (Armored Cruiser No. 10), 29 August 1916.
From the album of Francis Sargent; Courtesy of Commander John Condon, 1986.
U.S. Navy photo NH 101130		 Naval Historical Center
Isabel 143k Key West Naval Station, Florida. Photographed in 1919, with camouflage patterns on some buildings. Ships at piers are Castine, at left, and USS Isabel (SP-521) at right.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, 1969.
U.S. Navy photo NH 68764		 Naval Historical Center
Castine 109k Photograph autographed by Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN, circa the later 1950s or early 1960s. He served in Castine while commanding the Atlantic Fleet Submarine Flotilla between 20 May 1912 and 30 March 1913.
U.S. Navy photo NH 58098		 Naval Historical Center
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