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Gunboat No. 4 / PG-4 Bennington


Yorktown Class Gunboat: Laid down at Delaware River Iron Works; Launched, 3 June 1890; Commissioned USS Bennington (Gunboat No. 4), 20 June 1891; Decommissioned, 5 September 1901 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA; Recommissioned, 2 March 1903; Damaged beyond economical repair by boiler explosion, 21 July 1905 at San Diego, CA.; Decommissioned, 31 October 1905; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Final Disposition, sold 14 November 1910 for scrapping.

Specifications: Displacement 1,710 t; Length 244' 5"; Beam 36'; Draft 14'; Speed 14 kts; Complement 197; Armament six 6" breech-loading rifles, two 6-pdr and two 3-pdr rapid firing guns, two Hotchkiss revolving cannon, 2 Gatling guns; steam and sail.
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Bennington 104k Dry Dock, Mare Island Navy Yard.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 100931-KN
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Naval Historical Center
Bennington 74k San Francisco Bay, California, circa 1894-98.
Courtesy of Myles DeSomer, 1975.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 82133
Naval Historical Center
Bennington 68k c. 1895 Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center

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