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Nashville (PG 7)
ex-Gunboat No. 7

Nashville served both the U. S. Navy and the Illinois Naval Militia.
Nashville Class Gunboat: Laid down 9 August 1894 at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA; Launched 19 October 1895; Commissioned USS Nashville (Gunboat No. 7), 10 August 1897; Decommissioned 30 June 1904 at Boston Navy Yard, Boston MA; Recommissioned 5 August 1905; Decommissioned 23 July 1906; Assigned to the Illinois Naval Militia 29 April 1909 at Chicago, Ill.; Withdrawn in July 1911 and recommissioned in 1912 at Boston Navy Yard; Decommissioned 29 October 1918 at Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, SC; Designated PG-7 in 1920; Sold 20 October 1921 to J. L. Bernard and Co. of Washington, DC and converted to a barge; Scrapped in 1957.

Specifications: Displacement 1,371 t; Length 233' 8"; Beam 38' 1"; Draft 11'; Speed 16.3 kts; Complement 180; Armament eight 4" gun mounts, two 6-pounders, two 3-pounders and two 1-pounders; Proplusion steam.

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Nashville 72k . Robert Hurst
Nashville 80k . David Buell
Nashville 80k 1 January 1898
Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA
U.S. Navy photo NH 63415		 Naval Historical Center
Nashville 127k c. Early 1900's
On one of the Great Lakes. Nashville's career included the first to take a prize ship in the Spanish-American War, and the first American warship, sent by Teddy Roosevelt, to arrive at Panama in support of the "Revolt" in November 1903
A "Pesha" photo, a company that operated in the Great Lakes area during the early 1900's. It is printed on Kodak Velox paper, a Kodak product not available after about 1919.
From the collection of Chuk Munson.		 Chuk Munson
Nashville 78k Photo by Rau from the 1914 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships Robert Hurst
View Nashville (PG-7) Library of Congress Images
View the Nashville (PG-7)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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