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USRC Itasca
ex-USS Bancroft

Bancroft served both the U. S. Navy and the Revenue Cutter Service.
Gunboat: Built by Samuel L Moore and Sons, Elizabethport, NJ; Launched 30 April 1892; Commissioned USS Bancroft 3 March 1893; Decommissioned 30 September 1898 at the Boston Navy Yard; Recommissioned 14 August 1900; Decommissioned 25 May 1901 at the Boston Navy Yard; Recommissioned 6 October 1902; Transferred to the Revenue Cutter Service 30 June 1906 and commissioned USRC Itasca; Sold for scrap in May 1922 at Baltimore, MD for $8,250.00.

Specifications: Displacement 839 t; Length 189'; Beam 33'; Draft 12' 2"; Speed 14.5 kts; Complement 123; Armament four 4" gun mounts, two 18" torpedo tubes; Propulsion triple expansion steam and sail, two shafts.

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USS Bancroft
Bancroft 77k Dressed with flags, circa 1893-98.
Halftone photograph, published in Uncle Sam's Navy, 1898.
U.S. Navy photo NH 56334		 Navy Historical Center
Bancroft 102k Firing a salute in 1898.
U.S. Navy photo NH 56338		 Navy Historical Center
USRC Itasca
Bancroft 336k U.S. Coast Guard photo Mike Green
Bancroft 150k The Itasca in Naples, Italy on a cadet training cruise.
U.S. Coast Guard photo		 Mike Green
Bancroft 114k U.S. Coast Guard photo Mike Green
Bancroft 434k U.S. Coast Guard photo Mike Green
Bancroft 66k Photo from the 1919 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships Robert Hurst
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