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USCGC Beta
ex-USCGC Alexander Hamilton (WIX 272)
ex-USS Vicksburg (PG 11)
ex-Gunboat No. 11

Vicksburg served both the Navy, the State of Washington and the Coast Guard

Annapolis Class Gunboat: Laid down 17 January 1896 by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; Launched 5 December 1896; Delivered 27 June 1897; Commissioned USS Vicksburg Gunboat No. 11, 23 October 1897 at Portsmouth Navy Yard, NH; Decommissioned, 24 May 1899 at Boston, MA; Recommissioned, 15 May 1900 at Newport, RI; Placed out of commission, in reserve, 15 July 1904 at Mare Island Navy Yard; Recommissioned, 17 May 1909; Decommissioned and transferred to the Washington State Militia Nautical School, 18 June 1912; Recommissioned in May 1914; Decommissioned in June 1914 and placed back in a reserve status; Placed back in full commission, 13 April 1917 at Puget Sound; Decommissioned, 16 October 1919 at Puget Sound; Redesignated PG-11, 17 July 1920; Transferred to the Coast Guard 2 May 1921 and struck from the Navy Register; Commissioned USCGC Alexander Hamilton (WIX 272), 18 August 1922; Decommissioned 7 June 1930; Renamed Beta sometime between 1 July 1935 and 1 July 1936; Reassigned as a Station Ship 1 July 1940 at New London, CT; Decommissioned 30 December 1944; Returned to U.S. Navy 12 March 1945; Transferred to the War Shipping Administration 28 March 1946 and sold for scrap.

Specifications: Displacement 1,010 t; Length 204' 5"; Beam 35' 3"; Draft 12' 9"; Speed 6.5 kts. under sail, 13 kts; Complement 173; Armament six 1" gun mounts, four 6-pounder rapid fire mounts, two 1-pounder rapid fire mounts, and one Colt machine gun. Propulsion one 1,118hp triple expansion steam engine and sail, one shaft.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS Vicksburg
	86k	Under sail. c. 1898. U.S. Navy photo NR&L(O) 4889	Naval Historical Center
	88k	Under sail, circa 1897-1898. U.S. Navy photo NH 42053-A	Naval Historical Center
	102k	At anchor, circa the early 1900s. Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution. U.S. Navy photo NH 44258	Naval Historical Center
	128k	Coaling at Isabella, Basilan Island, Philippines, 1901. Courtesy of Captain Fletcher L. Sheffield, USN. U.S. Navy photo NH 42054	Naval Historical Center
	107k	On the marine railway at Canacao, near Cavite Navy Yard, Philippines, 1901. Courtesy of Captain Fletcher L. Sheffield, USN. U.S. Navy photo NH 42055	Naval Historical Center
	80k	Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, circa June 1904, upon her return to the United States from Asiatic waters. Note the "homeward bound" pennant flying from her mainmast peak. Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, 1971. U.S. Navy photo NH 75176	Naval Historical Center
	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
	148k	c. 1912 Mare Island Navy Yard, CA A tug is made up to her port side. You can see the tug's stack just aft of Vicksburg stack.	Darryl Baker
	97k	In a Pacific coast harbor, during World War I. Collection of William Crawford, who served in Vicksburg at the time. Donated by his daughter, Mrs. Ann Jordan, 1976. U.S. Navy photo NH 98334	Naval Historical Center
USCGC Alexander Hamilton (WIX 272)
	86k	.	Robert Hurst
	104k	Under sail, circa 1922-1930, while serving as U.S. Coast Guard Academy training ship. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1975. U.S. Navy photo NH 83221	Naval Historical Center