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Dolphin (PG 24)

Patrol Gunboat: Laid down 11 October 1883 as an unarmored cruiser by John Roach and Sons, Chester, PA; Launched 12 April 1884; Commissioned USS Dolphin 8 December 1885; Decommissioned 1 May 1891 at Norfolk Navy Yard; Recommissioned 15 March 1892; Decommissioned 23 November 1897 at New York; Recommissioned 24 March 1898; Designated a Patrol Gunboat, PG-24, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned 14 October 1921 at Boston Navy Yard; Sold for scrap 25 February 1922 to the Ammunition Products Corp. of Washington, DC.

Specifications: Displacement 1,485 t; Length 256' 6"; Beam 32'; Draft 14' 3"; Speed 15.5 kts.; Complement 117 - (1910) 152; Armament two 4" gun mounts, five 3-pounders (Armament 1885 - one 6" Breech-:oading rifle, four 47mm Hotchkiss Revolving cannon, two 6-pounders and two Gatling guns); Propulsion two double ended and two single ended boilers - (1910) changed to cylinderical boilers, one 2,250ihp vertical compound direct-acting engine, one shaft.

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Dolphin 44k Line drawing Joe Radigan
Dolphin 141k The Dolphin is depicted in her as-built rig in a lithograph produced for the Los Angeles Daily Herald. The art was one in a set of eight illustrations the newspaper offered for a month's advance subscription. Price: 75 cents.
U.S. Naval Institute Photo Archive image from the April 2008 edition of Naval History magazine		 Joe Radigan
Dolphin 68k Photographed during the 1890s.
U.S. Navy photo NH 69188		 Naval Historical Center
Dolphin 77k c.1895
This is the ship that carried the remains of James Smithson (of the Smithsonian Institution) to the U.S.		 Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center
Dolphin 123k Admiral William B. Caperton became Commander in Chief, Atlantic Reserve Fleet, USS Alabama (BB-8), flagship, in 1913 and after a year's service in that command, he assumed command in November 1914 of Cruiser Squadron, Atlantic Fleet, USS Washington (ACR-11), flagship. In 1915 he transfered his flag to Tennessee (ACR-10), and later to Dolphin (PG-24), he commanded the Naval Forces that intervened at Haiti in 1915-1916; was Commander Naval Forces, Vera Cruz, in 1915; and commanded Naval Forces intervening and suppressing the Santo Domingo Revolution in 1916.
Library of Congress photo ggbain 15823		 Bill Gonyo
Dolphin 62k Navy Department photo from the 1919 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships Robert Hurst
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