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Annapolis (IX 1)
ex-PG-10
ex-Gunboat No. 10

Annapolis served both the U. S. Navy and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Annapolis Class Gunboat: Laid down 18 April 1896 by the Lewis Nixon Co., Elizabethport, NJ; Launched 23 December 1896; Commissioned USS Annapolis, Gunboat No. 10, 20 July 1897 at New York; Decommissioned 5 September 1899 at Norfolk, VA; Recommissioned 14 November 1900; Decommissioned in June 1904 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA; Recommissioned 25 March 1907; Decommissioned 16 December 1911 at Mare Island Navy Yard ; Recommissioned 1 May 1912; Decommissioned 1 July 1919 at Mare Island Navy Yard; Loaned to the Commissioners of Navigation, Port of Philadelphia, as a training vessel on 1 April 1920 for duty as the Pennsylvania State Nautical Schoolship; Designated as a Patrol Gunboat, PG-10, 17 July 1920; Reclassified as an Unclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary, IX-1, 1 July 1921; Struck from the Navy Register 30 June 1940; Transferred to the Maritime Commission 11 April 1940 for disposal. Presumably, she was scrapped.

Specifications: Displacement 1,153 t; Length 203' 6"; Beam 36'; Draft 12' 9"; Speed 13.17 kts; Complement 133; Armament six 4" gun mounts and four 6-pounders; Propulsion steam and sail.

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USS Annapolis (Gunboat No. 10)
Annapolis 95k Annapolis pierside at the New York Navy Yard, circa 1897. The decommissioned Atlanta lies in the background.
U.S. Navy photo 19-N-12-17-13		 Naval Historical Center
Annapolis 77k In wartime gray paint, 1898.
U.S. Navy photo 19-N-12-17-17		 Naval Historical Center
Vicksburg 91k Mare Island Navy Yard, California. An early U.S. Navy submarine (probably Grampus or Pike) underway off the yard, circa early 1905. Gunboats Petrel and Princeton are in the center background. At left are the decommissioned gunboats Annapolis and Vicksburg.
Courtesy of Ted Stone, 1986.
U.S. Navy photo NH 100915		 Naval Historical Center
Annapolis 213k View of the hull planking removed from the Annapolis in dry dock No. 1 at Mare Island in January 1905.
U.S. Navy photo PG 10 001-7-1905		 Darryl Baker
Annapolis 130k Broadside View of Annapolis at the coal sheds at Mare Island in 1905.
U.S. Navy photo PG 10 003-1905		 Darryl Baker
Annapolis 551k Broadside View of Annapolis in the Mare Island channel in 1912.
U.S. Navy photo PG 10 001-1912		 Darryl Baker
Annapolis 172k Broadside View of Annapolis off San Francisco in 1912.
U.S. Navy photo PG 10 002-1912		 Darryl Baker
Annapolis 74k c. 1912
In the Mare Island channel		 Robert M. Cieri
Annapolis 186k USS South Dakota (ACR 9) at Mare Island Navy Yard circa Jan 1913. The collier USS Justin is behind and to the right of South Dakota and Annapolis is outboard of the Justin. Justin and Annapolis are at the yard's coal station. A rare image of the shipyard's stiff led derrick with her steam driven winch is to the left of South Dakota.
U.S. Navy photo		 Darryl Baker
Annapolis 129k c. 1913
Acapulco, Mexico
Photo by Ralph H. Goudey		 Robert M. Cieri
USS Annapolis (IX 1)
Annapolis 59k c. 1934 Robert Hurst
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