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PY-2 / IX-14 Hawk


Built in Scotland in 1891 as the yacht Hermione. Purchased by the Navy, April 1898. Converted to a gunboat and commissioned USS Hawk, 5 April 1898; Decommissioned, 14 September 1898; Laid up in the Reserve Fleet; Recommissioned, 1900 and loaned to the Ohio Naval Militia; Transferred to New York Naval Militia, 3 August 1909; Decommissioned, 21 May 1919; Laid up in the Reserve Fleet; Designated (PY-2), 1920; Redesignated Unclassified Miscellaneous (IX-14), 1 July 1921; Recommissioned, 16 April 1922; Decommissioned, 14 February 1940; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Final disposition, sold for scrapping, 25 February 1940 to Indiana Salvage Co., Michigan City, Ind.

Specifications: Displacement 545 t; Length 145'; Beam 22'; Draft 11'; Speed 14kts; Complement 47; Armament one 3-pdr, two 1-pdrs.
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Hawk 37k . Gunter Krebs
Hawk 176k April 1898, New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, NY
fitting out for Spanish-American War service.
US Navy photo NH 54593
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