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Gloucester

Call sign (1912):
Nan - Sail - Love

Gloucester served both the U. S. Navy plus the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and New York State Naval Militia

Gunboat:

The first Gloucester was built in 1891 as the steel-hulled yacht Corsair by Neafie and Levy, Philadelphia, PA

Sold to the Navy 23 April 1898 for $225,000.00

Commissioned USS Gloucester 16 May 1898

(1914 Ship's Data, U.S. Naval Vessels shows date of commissioning as 20 May 1899)

Decommissioned 8 February 1905 at Pensacola, FL

Served with the Massachusetts and New York Naval Militias at New York City

Recommissioned 7 April 1917 at Brooklyn Navy Yard

Struck from the Navy list 12 August 1919

Sold 21 November 1919

Wrecked in a hurricane in 1919 at Pensacola, FL.

Specifications:

Displacement 786 t.

Length 240' 8"

Beam 27' 2"

Draft 12'

Speed 17 kts.

Complement 94

1905 - 22

1911 - 79

Armament: Four 6-pounders, four 3-pounders and two Gatling guns

1905 - One 3-pounder and two Colt machine guns

1911 - Two 3-pounder rapid fire mounts and four 1-pounder rapid fire mounts

1914 - Three 3-pounder rapid fire mounts and four 1-pounder rapid fire mounts

Propulsion: Two Babcock and Wilcox boilers, one 2,000ihp vertical inverted triple-expansion steam engine, one shaft.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
Yacht Corsair
	95k	c. 1893 Photo by New York maritime photographer John S. Johnston (1839 - 1899)	Robert Hurst
USS Gloucester
	59k		Tom Kermen
	69k	Under her brilliant Captain Richard Wainwright, Gloucester gained world fame in the Spanish-American War	Naval Historical Center
	84k	Photographed in 1898, probably at the end of the Spanish-American War U.S. Navy photo NH 53600
	99k	Anchored in U.S. waters circa summer 1898, showing her forward 6-pdr. gun and bow decorations. Original photograph was printed on a stereograph card, copyright 1899 by Strohmeyer & Wyman, New York Donation of Louis Smaus, 1985 U.S. Navy photo NH 100294
	137k	Photographed by George P. Hall & Son, New York, summer 1898 Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 53747	Robert Hurst
	144k	A montage featuring a photograph of the ship entering the harbor of Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the summer of 1898, after her return from Spanish-American War service off Cuba, along with a cap ribbon bearing her name and a remnant of the pennant she flew during the 3 July 1898 Battle of Santiago. She was commanded by Lieutenant Commander Richard Wainwright, USN Courtesy of Lieutenant Commander Richard Wainwright, Jr., USN (Retired), 1928 Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 53752
	165k	c. 1899 Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 53749
	44k	Photo probably taken while serving with the New York State Naval Militia Photo from the 1914 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships
	91k	At anchor in the vicinity of New York City, circa March-July 1919. Photographed from the USS Santa Paula (ID-1590) during one of her voyages to or from France. Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2006 Naval Historical Center photo NH 103562